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Use in varieties of Scots

hair's Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.5 5.8 0 9.9 0 10.9 4.4
Number of occurrences1411 0 1 0 1 1
Number of authors10 7 1 1 1

Occurrences of hair's 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

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
thae ringlet hingmies, an ma hair's no like that at aw; an ah'm s on page 19

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Yer hair's the munebroch, yer een the st on page 25

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
last time ah saw her. And her hair's still dyed bleach blond. In w on page 72

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Yir hair's lookin lovely, how do yi git on page 100

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
save a lot a faffin cause her hair's aw the way doon tae her bum! on page 14
go tae the swimmin baths, His hair's startet tae grow back in an i on page 160
hate tae catch nits, cause ma hair's dead thick an wiry, yi widnae on page 169

3 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
he posh school. Ma lang black hair's scraped back intae a pony, an on page 5

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ae the bed across fae me. Hur hair's broon, and she's wearin a pai on page 88
tae bear an aw. Nae wonder ma hair's been a ghostly white fur year on page 111

2 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
Hauf an oor efter the skin an hair's stopped fleein, an the boays, on page 68

1 matches

Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
I swear his hair's got nests in it on page 120

1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
'm no Ida" she said, "cos hur hair's aw lang an curly, an mine isn on page 18

1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An her dairk hair's turned pure cranreuch gray. on page 12

1 matches

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