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The word 'hairs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hairsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.93523
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 23 9 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 12 9 7
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 54.5 3 1

Occurrences of hairs in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Announcin Truncherfaece twins, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
na held wan wi joost twartree hairs on da croon o his head. “Di
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
uptit Alec. "Appairently, the hairs aat eesed te growe on yer leg on page 68

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
wi her tears an dry them wi e hairs o her heid, kisst his feet an on page 92

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
sy, wi jist a twa, three fite hairs throw it. Forbye, fa'd rin th
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
d o the article that made the hairs on the back o my neck stand u
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
tae the cellar. She felt the hairs on the back o her neck prickl
1 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
an warst o aa thae wee black hairs that coiled across her lips on page 10

1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
thin' worse in a puckly stray hairs in yer mooth efter a pie or t(2015)

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
d it oot bi shavin some o the hairs aff o his foreairm. I could s on page 86

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
then. Stiff as a wee stooky, hairs staunin up oan the back ae ma on page 1

6 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
The gray hairs yet stack to the heft;
The gray hairs yet stack tae the heft;
2 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
used tae dye the hackit broon hairs that kept growin unnerneath. on page 50

1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
s faded and obscured by thick hairs. He presses the button and it on page 1

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
his lugs burnin, the hairs in his neb hardenin wi ilka on page 18

1 matches

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ters wi mair scars nor I haed hairs on ma chin, likit the hingin on page 56
rhymes nor Skalla-Magnus haed hairs on his heid, an grinned alang on page 57

2 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
-raip an happit in saft silky hairs. A wis fair taen-on wi the ma on page 81

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
in, the wund dirlin throu the hairs o her sleekit heid an back, a
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
Boggin wae dandruff and auld hairs. Lucked like a modler dragged(2020)
fe pulls oot yin o ma eyebrow hairs.(2020)

@weenell3 tweeted
@Ian_Burnett_ I cannae split hairs between you and George Foulke (2022) twitter link

@changed_days tweeted
@james19872_55 @Ljt10x Ma hairs the longest its ever been. Na (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Ye ken the feeling, yer hairs a mess on page 9

1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
whyte hairs haes kythed
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
e ye go, son. That'll mak the hairs grow on yer chest!" on page 12

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ye cannae mak even yin o yer hairs white or blek. Jist let yer ' on page 6
r knowin it. ° Fer tha verie hairs o yer heid ir aa coontit. Sae on page 9
onie o thaim. Even tha verie hairs o yer heid ir aa coontit, sae on page 91

3 matches

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