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The word 'hav'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
havOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3109
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 21 2 2
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 36.3 3 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hav in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
"An fit hav ye teen it doon for, for Goad on page 32

1 matches

Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
it is thocht that wildflooers hav becam extinct acause o the dr
1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
ol am really bored hee hee. I hav wine - u fancy a gless?(2011)

West Central

@annieones tweeted
@AgentP22 I'd hav hid ma earplugs listening tae (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin A Bad Sport, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
A hav a wee fly look ti the side n
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
wi no haein onybody tae say, 'Hav, c'moan, lads' tae, he thocht on page 112

1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
o be AWFY naive tae think SNP hav'nae been infiltrated by Dark (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
obbyRobson46 Well bobcat what hav e got ti tell is?????????????(2012)
wusni ment ti say out. E wul hav ti ask um #acasayanymare(2012)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
bson46 @rachelnuttella hope u hav yir dancing shoes on that nig(2012)