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The word 'wheer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wheerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.8222
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 127.9 22 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wheer in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
trow da aert? Hit will be da wheer ta come oot among da fok at w on page 9
For you see, dey wir dat mony wheer things happened lately, at Al on page 12
"Whit a wheer feelin!" said Alice. "I most on page 13
ayin fornenst hersel, for dis wheer bairn aften laekit ta mak on on page 14
¶ tocht; "an hit will seem da wheer, sendin praisents tae your ai on page 16
Also on pages 21, 25, 35, 62, 65, 74, 83, 98, 104, 112, 124, 125, 126
21 matches

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
ney lass, an Ah'm tinkin it's wheer I nivver heard o her afore.
1 matches

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