Scots dialects with wh > f alive and kicking

And here's the evidence:
http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk/corpus/search/document.php?documentid=545
The first word of the text, "faar", corresponds to English "where".
It's interesting, though, that the one bit of quoted Scots text
(as opposed to the narrative) is in a wh-dialect: "Whotten bonny".

Thanks to http://www.languagelog.com for the pointer.

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