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The word 'wiles'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wilesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3116
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 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) 72.7 4 1

Occurrences of wiles in Corpus

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West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
ared us fer girls an’ their wiles. Primrose wisnae a part o’
y, ah ken that he’s got the wiles of Oor Wullie, n he is oor na
2 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
tfacin life's an luck's warst wiles. on page 12
Tae wiles o changeling eggs wha hecht on page 81

2 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
bles are pricked by the canny wiles o thaim that bides ablow ster
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
aboot her: no the wiles on page 40

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
Blint' bae hir womanly wiles, on page 19

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Baptiser cum praichin ïn tha wiles o Judea an sayin, "Turn awa f on page 3
eneuch breid oot here ïn tha wiles, tae feed sitch a crood o fow on page 9
"A voice ïs cryin oot in tha wiles: on page 73

4 matches

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