A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'haired'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hairedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61815
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of haired in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
er, dis peerie wrinkled white haired tired aald wife. I stude dere on page 48
an da pictir o a lovely black haired infant da face a her Aandrew on page 78

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
nuff feish tae laan. A nivver haired fae thi lad aifter at, bit ay on page 62

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
an pickit up Willie, the wire-haired Terrier. "Willie's gaun naewy on page 25

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
e furled aroon te see a daark-haired lassie smilin it im. He opene on page 40

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
is nae ill-luikin chiel: derk-haired, sax-fit heich, swippert an w
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I wint a short haired quine fa sometimes wears it t on page 179

1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
out ti gang but, whan the rid-haired wicht kythit at
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
sicht it wis, this toty daurk-haired body, sittin there wi her fee on page 9

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
' He glared at the wee, curly-haired and bearded man afore him. on page 53

1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Yon gowden haired lass fae owre the sea, on page 23

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
stage. Gesturin tae the short-haired wumman tae heeze the curtain, on page 134

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
an run efter their auld white-haired, wrinkly mammy, but ah need t on page 74

1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
guard gaped at the slim fair-haired lad an said, “Is this boy t

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Langsyne ye gied til a whyte-haired chiel
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
bun, coal, dram fae yer daurk-haired first fit. on page 77

2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
ud be richt eneuch. Thon blak-haired yin's a quare haird-lukkin ti on page 24

1 matches

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