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The word 'hack'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hackOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71512
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hack 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.

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n Ah tak up is briks, Ah jist hack em aff bi the knees an they f on page 21

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
couldnae get ony cadavers tae hack open an keek intae. It wis th
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
uil the morra!' she bowffed. 'Hack them aff and fling them in th on page 106

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
sy Baxter, ae nicht, heard it hack on page 112

1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
the English lines, tae hack an' barge,
1 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
he three wee guys, who smiled hack. Then she turnt tae ma da and
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
The black-hack driver’s been rabbitin oan
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
Ah get oot the black hack in Kentish Town, just ootside
1 matches

General Central

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
o the skalds. I saw Thorstein hack a man's heid i hauf, an Olaf on page 58

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
Hack an Heave, Heave an Hack. Nicht an Dey. Snaw an Haill. on page 14

2 matches

Curt_Kenobi Mates, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
r. We all git auld, we cannae hack it anymair, and that's it. Th
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
p ower. Paterson hud the crew hack doon the mast an somehoo they

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
thon whae wad hae a hack at me, on page 77

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
coofs fae #ARSvsMUFC couldnae hack it doon Ballygellick Shawgroo (2015) twitter link