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Use in varieties of Scots

hemmer Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.6 4.1 13.6 0 0 0 17.7
Number of occurrences218 9 0 0 0 4
Number of authors8 4 2 2

Occurrences of hemmer in Corpus

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Central

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
his hemmer chinklin atween anvil an wark on page 21
wi a soople twist o the hemmer. on page 22

2 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
x, he yaises it as a plane, a hemmer, a screwdriver, an tae pit th on page 86

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
s stickin wi auld pent. Get a hemmer an a hashin cheisel an get th on page 26

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
the thump o the great watter hemmer, as blecksmiths beat the rid- on page 80

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
d the ploushare a daud wi his hemmer tae strauchten oot a bend. Th on page 17

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
haed drave the screws in wi a hemmer. Montgomery's gizz tirnt whit on page 98

1 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
eir bluid is bloo, but drap a hemmer on their feet,
1 matches

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
rs an e Pharisees held at him hemmer an tongs wi a cum o back-spei on page 101

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
MAX WALL'S SILLER HEMMER on page 182

8 matches

Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
irds, tak a richt turn ... an hemmer on awa up tha hill fur aboot on page 27

1 matches

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Ye may hit it a skelp wae the hemmer" on page 8
Wae a hemmer, tryin tae get oot. on page 19

3 matches

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