A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

hol Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.1 2.1 0 9.9 81.4 0 0
Number of occurrences194 0 1 14 0 0
Number of authors8 2 1 5

Occurrences of hol in Corpus

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Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
nt tae be aff tae Italy for a hol. Shit happens and thought wel(2020) search twitter

@jax6754 tweeted
ack oan twitter efter yir fam hol! Huggggggggggsssss fae Scotla(2014) search twitter
ome bac tae twitter efter yor hol! Hope you all had a fabby tim(2015) search twitter
d tae hear you've had a fabby hol! xxx(2015) search twitter

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
th poiïms, bit the wark as a hol haes a kaindlee vernaclir flo
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
Doon da Rabbit-Hol on page 7
plumpin doon a muckle rabbit-hol anunder da daek. on page 8
ge, no muckle bigger as a rat-hol: shö guid doon apon her knee on page 11
taers, till dey wir a muckle hol o watter aa aroond her, aboot on page 17
ta keep me eye apo dis moose-hol till Dinah comes back, an see on page 34
Also on pages 35
7 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
rn rushes doon intae yun deep hol," he whispered, "dey'll be a on page 9
a nor aest, mair laek da hert hol a winter, although it wis jus on page 33
n ipo dir shovels i da quarry hol oot da rodd, an comin hame ta on page 73
an doon, "Dat's a boddamless hol, if you brakk da surface youl on page 92

4 matches

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
wi a hoidy-hol for queer luckin wirds on page 19

1 matches

Irvine, Chloe Untitled Poem, (The Scotsman 2021) Shetland - Whalsay, poetry
How kin you caa somewye a 'hol' yur niffer even bun?
1 matches

Watt, Valerie A skoit trowe da shops, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
Kubby Hol is a new shop, an goin bi hit
1 matches

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