A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hurchin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hurchinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7124
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 140.6 10 3
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hurchin in Corpus

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East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Tha hurchin rowes ticht in a baa, on page 49

2 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@HurchinHome - thank ye Mr Hurchin: you're no sib tae the deil w (2014) twitter link
I'd no noticed this afore Mr Hurchin: a wheeker resource! Weel don (2014) twitter link
Gie us your shortlist Hurchin! @HurchinHome (2015) twitter link

@HurchinHome tweeted
", "laverock", "queelrod" an "hurchin"!(2014)
had to have a hurchin film eventually https://t.co/(2017)
he Scots language still uses 'Hurchin'.(2020)

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
things first...it's called a hurchin!!! (Serious camo in the first (2021) twitter link
Had a wee juke an found some hurchin food when oot shappin, gye ha (2021) twitter link
nHome @scotslanguage Always a hurchin day up here ??????! (2021) twitter link