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The word 'hauf-yin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hauf-yinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1102
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
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) 153.7 3 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 98.4 7 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hauf-yin in Corpus

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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
uns fae tha clachan, an buy a hauf-yin o whuskey, aiblins he'll tell on page 8
A glugged a hauf-yin fae tha bottle on page 18
While mony troo a beer an hauf-yin on page 35

3 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
roond for a feed o champ an a hauf-yin o whuskey, then he'll be yarn (2016) twitter link
e awa hame, haein a yarn an a hauf-yin! (2015) twitter link
re tae Burns, for a yarn an a hauf-yin in the 1790s. Rare crack nae (2015) twitter link
braid #UlsterScots (an a wee hauf-yin o whusky, if he taks a drop h (2015) twitter link
WillieJohn21 Aye Sir - a wee hauf-yin o whuskey fair keeps the caul (2014) twitter link
and 2 other occurrences.