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The word 'hostile'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hostileOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4148
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 37.7 6 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hostile in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
listenin tae Aldo plottin his hostile takeover ae the school. A few on page 196

1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
r ambeivalent. He wes pertlie hostile, but in sum weys wantit in on
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Tae Kathleen Jamie, an ither Scots Scrievers, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
ifferent government an a semi-hostile media. That whit's haudin us
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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
lookin oot the windaes at the hostile crowds when they saw somethin on page 127

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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
r git back? The distance, the hostile terrain, the hostile fundies,
terrain, the hostile fundies, an than the impenetr
rt again wis the pairt o that hostile territory that wis maist popu
for a wee, leukin oot at the hostile warld she wad suin be travers
speirt, wary o him, a bittie hostile.
5 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
e the park the climate became hostile and miserable. Basically, it
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
rdit thae ootbursts even wi a hostile an misdootfu glower. The last on page 141

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McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
press support an a lairge an hostile opposition. Labour fowk were
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
tit in an awmaist uniformally hostile press? Screive a comprehensiv
e Aye, they were at least nae hostile tae the idea, didna dismiss i
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