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The word 'wheek'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
wheekOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.483
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 71.4 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 142.2 5 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of wheek in Corpus

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Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Wae a wheek o the quick bricht een, on page 23

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Ye cannae wheek them oot, on page 16
A wheek ootby on page 46

2 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ht. The weans fae oor clachan wheek up the wireless whan yin o th (2015) twitter link
. Hooaniver, I hae it sorted: wheek a wheen o boards on the wunda (2015) twitter link
ak oor #UlsterScots tythes an wheek us awa doon the bottom. #Scun (2015) twitter link
t ony mair - can you no jist wheek oot the kiltie bands #Glasgow (2014) twitter link
@HurchinHome "Thon" - ye can wheek thon in onywhaur. (2015) twitter link