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The word 'whitten'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whittenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7123
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 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 12.7 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
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 whitten in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
things shö kent. "Juist tink whitten a wark dat wid mak wi da day on page 60
"An whitten craiters is dis?" said da Whe on page 81
) " - so du can hae nae idea whitten a winderfil thing da Lobster on page 99
"Whitten a trial is dis?" said Alice, on page 108

4 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - Da Odyssey (1-75), (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, poetry
"My bairn, whitten wirds is creipit dy teeth's g
1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
shae kentna whitten airt the win wes blawin frae.
pone ye wuid cry the gemm, “Whitten wul be maister?”
canna mynd whitten burn is the richt ane, sae he
ur he gaed wrang, an explened whitten ill-faculties
cam frae hiz pawrents, an whitten frae hiz hyne-awaw antecestor
5 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
Bot whitten is the dug, whitten the tail? on page 11

2 matches

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