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The word 'wheeshtit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wheeshtitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.173
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 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 5.3 4 1
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 wheeshtit in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
dö yon ageen!" an dat fairly wheeshtit dem ageen. on page 40
Hat-makker an da Mairch Hare wheeshtit her, an da Dormoose turned do on page 75

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Soondscapes, (Shetland For Wirds 2015) Shetland, poetry
Apö da broo, ahint a wheeshtit chapel,
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
a's giant chocolate works wis wheeshtit and deid. The lums stapped wa on page 19
The room wis aw wheeshtit. Awbody wis waitin noo on Cha on page 32
The crood wheeshtit. The bairns stapped booncin a on page 66

4 matches

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