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The word 'whoever'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whoeverOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51511
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 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 20.5 4 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 whoever in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
in id aboot four feet high. "Whoever lives air," thoucht Alice, "i on page 52

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
it. A place where yae kin be whoever yae want tae be. And here's m on page 20
urn tae face the direction ae whoever said it. Ah instantly find ma on page 51

2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
'd turn roon an say tae them, Whoever smelt it dealt it. on page 90
hem dacin wis smokin, snoggin whoever they wur gaun wi, an dancin o on page 169

2 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
an’ ah'll tell ye fur whye Whoever much they waant tae pyee ‘C
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
snae waitin eagerly tae greet whoever’s oan the other side. Ah pu
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
if ah like the soond ae bein whoever-it-is, ah'll come up: itherwi on page 20
in it aboot fower fit high. "Whoever it is lives there," though Al on page 54

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ssed right then an there, tae whoever's list'nin. on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e tae ingratiate themsels tae whoever it is, owns the arse their to
1 matches

General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
e @AppleMak19 @NicolaSturgeon Whoever that @AppleMak19 is has me bl(2020)

@MartinBroon tweeted
the barrel...Best of luck wae whoever yeez go fur...cept that waste(2019)

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
Muckle thanks to whoever posted this through my letter(2019)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
but wherever she’d went and whoever she’d went wi’, she didna
1 matches

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