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The word 'haps'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hapsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.73123
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 3
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 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 17.4 13 9
SEA - South East (Borders) 49.9 4 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) 176.7 2 2
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)

Occurrences of haps in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
She haps her airms aroon Astrid's wais on page 108

1 matches

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
Shö haps hersel wi strent an dignity on page 49

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
A ting o lass in Paris haps hersel on page 98

1 matches

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Announcin Truncherfaece twins, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“Wid du no need twa o yon haps, Mam?” axed Uggledlugs.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
"Nae chiel lichts a cannel an haps it wi a pottie or pits it ane on page 93

1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
Ay, he thocht, snaa haps it aa; ay, lik we wis expecti on page 29

2 matches

General Northern

Johnston, Mary Lallans 82 - Life Spang, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
k a bite o't, it's soor, seil haps ma dool. I'll niver thole aa on page 26

1 matches

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
still haps it peaceful like at times on page 10

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
ies it gies thaim! An syne it haps thaim up cosie, ye ken, wi a on page 12

1 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
raculous an Bing wheeched the haps aff the Steinway. They wis ha on page 26

1 matches

General Central

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
the new day, an pulled their haps tichter roond thaim an ower t on page 54
dit an set tae rowin up their haps an gear, streitchin their sti on page 55

2 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
l: 'Belike na! The wee prince haps his flooer unner her gless gl on page 91

1 matches

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Whyles Jessie haps the bairn, on page 9

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
haps his een wi cracked auld goggl on page 9

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
ame, hou lost. The nicht jeel haps on page 32

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
e that a mainstream publisher haps it aa thegither (and mair) in on page 54

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 56 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
hie-tech wab o computers that haps wir planet. Whit for no tak L on page 15

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
for the magnetic fields that haps oor warld. Haed we nae fields
maks the magnetic fields that haps the planet ootwardly. Atween
syne a metallic hydrogen that haps a hert likely made o rock an
Moon. A thick haar o methane haps this moon giein it an orange
4 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
urie’t fou warm ’neth the haps,
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
The gloamin haps the ceitie waw, on page 34

1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
haps aye on the brae face.
an mist haps the distant craigs.
2 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
he blankets ower us baith, an haps hersel aboot ma auld banes, h
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
The yin wat clie haps up the deed, on page 19

1 matches

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Haps oo letter ain tha page on page 13

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
rple-green ootline o Scotland haps up the sky. Frae the middle o
1 matches

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