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The word 'whyle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
whyleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus15.15011
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 43.8 17 2
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 133.2 11 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 83.7 6 4
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 whyle in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
uate, its wark feenished this whyle, its maister ficherin wi't, s
her bed, comin back in a wee whyle wi the promised cuppie o tea,
audin her hauns up in the air whyle her mither wippit the oo roon
A wee whyle efter, Meg Ramsay's feet cam
'Nae wirth whyle lowsin wir pynts, will jist h
7 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
o the chiel’s car, an a wee whyle efter, they fand thirsels in
1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Spikk o the Nor East Leid, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Doric, poetry
Whyle Willie Alexander screived his
1 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
k o'm. Wul ye mak it warth ma whyle? Gin ye wul, A'l gledlie haud on page 48

3 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
Scotch Croun Jowells.Whyle thon stouth wes ongaein duran
the haun, an set hissell doun whyle the tryne stertit
bricht eydentrie, whyle the cluds hingit staitiouneir
drave, whyle the larries grouzilt alang ah
“We maun strik whyle the ern’s het,” gried Joh
14 matches

West Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Rants and Foys, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
eckly oot o the Fowk Revival, whyle ithers were jist stertit twa- on page 56

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
er Brithers boued thair hochs whyle Barbar stuid an wyted. "A hae on page 44
e, Adomnan gied Barbar a rair whyle he wes dae-in hiz yokin on a on page 45
Whyle Barbar wes halpin the Brither on page 46

3 matches

General Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ty, Presbyterian and radical, whyle Motherwell wis Episcopalian a on page 69

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ar agin Scots in the census, whyle the convenor, David Steel, ha on page 121

2 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
mely murtherin Scottish Opera whyle lattin on ti think on daein m on page 5

2 matches

Purves, David Lallans 73 - Ten Owersettins frae the Chinese, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
the whyle the endless river swaws on page 38

1 matches

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
e duin. A millenium is a lang whyle ti wait for a poet ti be unne
1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
end til the wund, whyle the wyld geese abuin,
a lang whyle bi the houss door.
the Spring wather, whyle the
3 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
d wis herd it Meadshaw fur ae whyle. A’ll
wisna tae bei fund. Efter ae whyle Yid wis seen walkin up the ro
bies efter at is weill fur ae whyle. Ma faither an mei wur affen
e the Harden herd an efter ae whyle thay flittit doun til
4 matches

South West (Galloway)

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
whyle ah sail the seas on page 183

1 matches

Niven, Liz Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
it in this monie layert buik. Whyle a wheen threids an themes rin on page 87

1 matches

Niven, Liz Stravaigin, (Luath 2001 ISBN: 978-1905222704) Central, poetry
Superiority jist fir a whyle. So sup wi me sisters an gie on page 42

1 matches

Scott, Hamish Lallans 75 - Televeision, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
in on our TV we’v haed this whyle bak
1 matches

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
That wis mony a lang whyle syne!
A lang whyle afore
2 matches

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