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The word 'hawd'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hawdOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6127
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 35.2 7 3
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hawd in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
They obviously wurr tryin tae hawd oan tae how auld they wurr fi
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
lammy an weak, like grabbin a hawd ae a deid _ fish. Ah hink abo on page 13
icely. How dae they look?' Ah hawd up the drawers tae Dolly. She on page 26
wist, 'her,' twist, 'phone?', hawd. on page 28
run fur it but Parker gets a hawd ae him. on page 31

4 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
hat nice Shane" "Cannae get a hawd ay 'um...phones ringin oot... on page 3

1 matches

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Hawd up, Grado, it's yersel', Eh?
Hawd on, the sun's oot! TAPS AFF!
2 matches

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna A Scot’s Lament fur her American Fellows (Oan their election of a tangerine gabshite walloper)., (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2016) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Hawd oan ti values you hold dear,
1 matches

Wallace, Lorna Tae A Selfie, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2014) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
A hawd oan tae ma bevvy ticht
1 matches

General Central

@alistairdunn tweeted
@16daniel90 hawd oan tae a get the violin oot.(2014)

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
Ave jus hawd Santy pass me hoose @raiphsay(2020)