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The word 'whir'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whirOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7125
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 817.5 5 1
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 whir in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
The whir o a tram on page 113

1 matches

(South) East Central

Grubb, Adrian Bungee, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Kirkcaldy, prose
ibus and want tae the bridge, whir a wiz gonnae jump aff eh. We
1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ee place at the tap wi a seat whir the driver wis an the wurkmen on page 76

3 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
'Whir's happenin tae its craigie"" on page 86

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
me an Thomas, tae this shoap whir ye could get a penny's worth on page 46

1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Fir she haes him whir she wants him, in accordance on page 18
He cud tell whir its made, this Burnquarter We on page 29
s an' nighbours tae the place whir yae wir bo'm, on page 42
Whir Proddysins an' Cathlics met d on page 44

5 matches

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