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The word 'wifi'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wifiOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.485
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 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.8 3 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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wifi in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
Grunny’s got nae WiFi, so I’ve set a daily limit
hame tae ma double bed, fibre WiFi and three meals a day that di
2 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
ce pit 'wifie' faan A wintit 'wifi'. ?? https://t.co/73eFuC6avW(2020)

General Central

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
"Ma Wifi isnae workin - on page 7

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
There’s nae wifi tae connect tae, and A’ve n
1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
(get it roon ye, EE), and the wifi on the bus wis kaput.
sel tae Eduroam, a university wifi network hingy thit’s meant
2 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
msport an they dinnae hae ony WiFi doon thonder. But I hae the n (2016) twitter link