A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

hows Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 5.1 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1110 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of hows in Corpus

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Central

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
'Hows the last couple of weeks been on page 1

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Hows yur sister Lucy, gittin oan?' on page 38

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
So hows aboot takin ti thi dance flai on page 100

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
n he shoutet, Aw right Kirsty hows it gaun ma wee mucker, anen h on page 169

1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
delish. Now........ahm........hows yir AGiftADay goin? Happy wee(2015) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
3Threestripes @LiviFCOfficial hows that likes - snow covered as (2021) twitter link
@JakeMoyes1108 hows it gaun lord lucan lol (2021) twitter link
emur24 @cdolan8 @TheFootyFact hows ma laddie getting oan - sorr (2020) twitter link
hows about this eosfl - lthv prof (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
by mesel and git stuff done! Hows du been keepin?? X (2020) twitter link