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hovering Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.1 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences74 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 3 3

Occurrences of hovering in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
o Esartshall around them were hovering, on page 48

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Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
re the danger lurkt, ma hauns hovering ower ma pistol grips - chink
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Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
og glimmerin’ bright like a hovering ghost. Mither hid made it ham
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@g_hibby tweeted
ybody else see the helicopter hovering over the top o' Arthur's Seat (2023) twitter link

Doric

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
They start hovering directly abeen us. The rope l
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Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
d turned tae the cook faa wiz hovering nearby.
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The Flying Pigs Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
™ course, we are used tae wee hovering things oot here, so I pity th
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