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The word 'wumin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wuminOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.555
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
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 wumin in Corpus

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(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
tonkerthomas She’ll no be ma wumin then ??(2020)

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
tormed past him like “A mad wumin!” as he pit it. She walked,
1 matches

General Central

@rattlecans tweeted
ok and no a daddies'. All the wumin aboot got awfie firm and kind (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
a_gibb away and boil yor heed wumin #eerjeestnoclueduprite :)(2012)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
doon yir throat.yir mothers a wumin #slutfraethenorth(2012)