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The word 'whiley'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whileyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6126
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 211 6 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
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)
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 whiley 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
eech ), an they went on for a whiley in silence. on page 60
ed been lookan at Alice for a whiley wi beeg curiosity, an iss wis on page 65
she let e Moosie go on for a whiley withoot interruptan id. on page 71
he thoucht id oer for a peedy whiley afore she made her next remar on page 94
t them, an considered a peedy whiley afore she gave her answer. "T on page 99
Also on pages 114
6 matches

General Northern

Clark, F. E. Eemis Stane 1 - Vratched, (Eemis Stane 2022) Doric, prose
st sit wi ma an hud ma hand a whiley. Ahm sair made an the deil o on page 23

1 matches

Wilde, Jacqueline Jay Valentine Tango, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
A wee whiley back, eh?
1 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
mebbe hae geen that tae ye a whiley ago, said ma granny, but I li
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
d a wee thochtie a' day bin a whiley since @shmuFM 's @johnnydee72(2016)

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
sae quick, in the last wee whiley on page 30
It taks a guid whiley tae put ten an ten thegether on page 31

2 matches

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