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Use in varieties of Scots

hooks Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 5.7 3 0 5.8 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences1611 2 0 1 1 1
Number of authors9 4 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of hooks in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
hacks him twice wae two right hooks. We watch in slow motion as A on page 27

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
, at the end o which were twa hooks insteid o haunds. There wis a on page 47
's theatre troupe, the wan wi hooks for haunds, staunin in the fr on page 89
mannie pit yin o his fearsome hooks on Klaus's shooder, "I think on page 90
id up again and pit baith his hooks richt in front o Klaus's face on page 91
failin tae bite the mannie's hooks. on page 92
Also on pages 118, 122
7 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
e back up, and I laugh, so he hooks uz again in the same place on
1 matches

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
i spinning reels attached and hooks at the business end. So far s
enormous worms. He baited oor hooks and we started tae fish.
2 matches

Doric

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ikit and hung it on the row o hooks neist tae the front door. The on page 41

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
'Bi the hooks an crooks o the road'
1 matches

Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
ks" fae da sand using "hjuks"(hooks).

Southern

The Westender Loupin Salmon, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
in' ontae the slope wi muckle hooks tied tae sticks. Cleeks, a hi
1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
All exercise ma muckle hooks on page 6

1 matches

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