The following information is taken from the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, available online at http://www.dsl.ac.uk/index.html. This is a work in progress.
| Spelling | Number | Dates & headers | 
|---|---|---|
| Weir | 3 | 1562-3 (customer); 1650 (cachpell) | 
| Wer | 1 | 1488 (burrow-male) | 
| Were | 1 | 1493 (allege) | 
| Werre | 1 | 1555-6 (casting) |