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Use in varieties of Scots

hire Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 4.1 1.5 9.9 11.6 10.3 0
Number of occurrences138 1 1 2 1 0
Number of authors12 8 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of hire in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
The boss cunt's too tight tae hire a cleaner, even though the pl on page 60

1 matches

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Wis his because o hire payed on page 18

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e right gear, ma da said, The hire ae yer wet suit an yer mask a on page 42

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
For ony leddy's hire.
1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
aince eerant ti hire thaim on, at the time he wis
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
uirer industrial districts by hire-purchase firms and smaa shopk
1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ay the club. Another private hire taxi.
1 matches

McMillan, Hugh The Return of the Brownie of Blednoch, (no publisher recorded 2022) Central, poetry
nae hire for Aiken Drum -
1 matches

Doric

Gauld, Ilene Ilene Gauld - Piper and Poet, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Keith, weans
So she went tae Sirs Dress Hire straight efter the skweel.
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
tae the reality o wur compact hire ker. The doors clap closed in
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
stink a sheep's muck. Du cood hire a car fae Bolts, hire her fur on page 39

2 matches

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
They thought tae hire a JCB on page 56

1 matches

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