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The word 'hawns'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hawnsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.6183
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 92.3 17 2
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hawns in Corpus

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Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'You keep yer fuckin hawns aff him!' on page 8
,' ah lie. The wee chubby lad hawns me a roastin hoat can ae Tenn on page 10
open the door tae her oan her hawns an knees, feelin aboot in the on page 17
n an swiping fur ages, Parker hawns Dolly his phone. on page 19
sittin fidgetin aboot wi her hawns as if she's wantin tae go an on page 22
Also on pages 25, 26, 31, 104
10 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
ame's Daisy Douglas. We shake hawns. Folk don't seem tae like her on page 1

1 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
Ah gie the cunt a pound an he hawns me this wee bag ae the hings. on page 1
He's like a man possessed. He hawns me the bag back. Ahm curious on page 2
doon the stair an mah granda hawns me a can ae Tennent's. It's f on page 172
e oan mah uncle, He's got his hawns in the air but he's still haw on page 176

6 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
Flap his hawns an’ squirm
1 matches

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