A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

hel Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.3 1 0 0 11.6 0 101.8
Number of occurrences272 0 0 2 0 23
Number of authors8 1 2 5

Occurrences of hel in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
silence hung, an the wheesht hel ontae me. on page 95

1 matches

Pennie, Len The Wheesht, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central - Greenock, poetry
e silence hung an the wheesht hel ontae me
1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
A E L as edder ‘hale’, ‘hel’ or ‘heel’. Hit wid jui
1 matches

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
n he’s dere if I need him to hel (2021) twitter link

Ulster

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Hel oot, the appen han on page 11
Thonner, airms hel oot on page 13
Belly hel in the grup on page 23
ame. Or unther the quult. She hel aye tae yin deedly waipon: na on page 49

4 matches

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
In a ticht-boon bale hel thegither wi stranglin twine on page 16
A leevin tongue wi heid hel high. on page 31
Tha nixt life's coard hel ticht. on page 36
ut luk at me, a worm or waur, Hel heich in nae man' ee: on page 63

4 matches

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Sabbath Day, an yit the'ir no hel tae accoont fer brekkin tha L on page 9
mlie o Abraham, that haes bin hel ïn bondage bi Satan thïs ec on page 94

2 matches

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
udit o' heirskeip collections hel' the noo tae identify the Uls on page 9
archive hel' bae the research institute(a on page 10
icy ir resource improvements, hel' beck bae political on page 13
o' Scots leid materials isnae hel' beck bae the fect at the Sco on page 31
als wur funded wi' aa bit yin hel' aist o' on page 45
Also on pages 46, 53, 55, 65
11 matches

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
repones; makkin shair it’s hel oan tae an siccar. It’s agi
1 matches

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
nk the sheets o roosted zinc, hel up wae binged sods an stanes,
1 matches

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