A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hols'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
holsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 4
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 4.4 1 1
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hols in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
a trootie burn, shaain dem da hols he used ta fish whin he wis a on page 9

1 matches

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
were twa een dat coulda brunt hols in cloot. Stukkin upa da tap
1 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
ll no be up ageen till Easter hols sometime(2020)
st started blockin aa da erse hols instead o engagin wi dem(2021)

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
stirlins still nest in da sam hols in wir oothooses as when I wa(2018)

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@DeesideDon Ye awa yer hols min(2020)