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Use in varieties of Scots

hired Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.7 9 9.6 9.9 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences2717 6 1 0 0 3
Number of authors14 9 2 1 2

Occurrences of hired in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Ae Traiveller hired a dunkey on page 18

4 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
e the highheidyins in Edinbro Hired an archaeologist, on page 17

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Ah'll tell her ah've hired yae tae clean the hoose. Plea on page 83
a private investigator and ah hired the boay tae dae some diggin on page 107

4 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
akkin even mair money and had hired a ship, kittit it oot wi aw t on page 33

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
Coont Olaf treatin them like hired haunds, the three bairns wirn on page 43

1 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
on the ranting engines o the hired machine. It stuid there trumm on page 18

1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
he haed hired thaim, for thay gied him a bo
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Lat the auld witch burn, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
He an his wee baund o hired men haed cleared mony a hoose
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Clyde Built, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘So who ur you, eh? You the hired help? Ye ever thoat aboot get
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
meanin, a horse that could be hired. Who knew? No fuckin me anywa
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
the tidy lookin dug walker ah hired. The wee man understands the
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
'"'Ah've even hired een o yon pink limos te drive on page 56

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
the simmer nichts, the Bruces hired Alec an Ned an the horses oot
, an baith the cairts hid bin hired tae help wi the flit. Alec Ma
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
on at the eyn o it. Brian wis hired tae fiddle tae them an tae sp
ation, a certain Miss Vining, hired fur a tour o the colonies tae
in ower ill tae move, twa war hired, Nurse Emmett an Nurse Macken
3 matches

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
me wishes a lass fae Wyre wis hired and fae the first I set eyes on page 21

1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
wus starvin wi hung'r. Sae he hired hïssel oot tae a local fairm on page 96

2 matches

Cartmill, Claire Three score years an ten, (Ballymoney and Moyle Times 2014) Ulster, newspaper
es like Glenarm ir Larne.. we hired Matt Meharg,
1 matches

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