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The word 'hams'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hamsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1106
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hams in Corpus

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Shetland

Laurenson, Hannah Lisa Da Maa's Eggs, (Hands Up For Trad 2019) Shetland, prose
orn and brought up at da Nort Hams o Roe in a peerie twa bedroom
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Da Hams lookin fresh top right ?? htt (2017) twitter link

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
and they gaed ootby. A wheen hams hingin ben the kitchen wis ta
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
, and they went ootside. Some hams hingin in the kitchen were ta on page 6

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
ae less than a hunner smeekit hams and fufty sides o bacon! on page 52
aboot twa-three braw smeekit hams... I'm awfie on page 54
and raxed doon three brawsome hams. 'And dae ye like bacon, Broc on page 55
, and the deuks and geese and hams and bacon were ladit ontae th on page 56
okies and deuks and geese and hams and bacon, and awbody wis lay on page 75

5 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
laik hams, when he tuk it intay his hee on page 44

1 matches

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