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The word 'whey'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wheyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7199
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 26.8 11 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of whey in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Miss Moffat's curds an whey on page 74

1 matches

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
Whey, acause we like gaen the Burm on page 26

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
'll tell ye he did nothin. So whey's he run awa then? Runnin awa on page 1

8 matches

Gilmour, Rosie Bak Tae Schuil, (Scots Hoose 2015) Central, weans
Bit whey's stuffin thir face wi Christ
1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
and’s haen ane. An that’s whey she’s no fashed aboot offen
1 matches

Ayrshire

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 83 - Cochise o the Apache Nation, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
This is whey A dinnae cair tae tyauve thro on page 26

1 matches

General Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 79 - Oot o the Mooths o Weans, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
n cuid luk sae muckle yunger, whey cuid her gran no? on page 92

1 matches

Beckett, Mavis Duncan Lallans 59 - Auntie Aggie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
er whather we lyked it or no. Whey cuid thai no jist pit "Chucki on page 118

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
nkit, better kent as curds an whey. I think on it nou as the for
1 matches

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
Whey would have thought face masks(2020)
@deangillan1 whey div e play?? #stickin #allthe(2013)

General Ulster

Ullans Speakers Association Nursery Rhymes for Weans, (Ulster-Scots Agency 2008 ISBN: 978-0955791697) Ulster, weans
Atin her cruds an whey on page 13

1 matches

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