A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hearing'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hearingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52520
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern 39.9 9 6
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hearing in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@LeftPeggers From fit in hearing.... Aye(2021)

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
he coodnae help bit think his hearing wis
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
@shmuFM show? Ah fair enjoyed hearing you loup puddles. #FitBonny x(2015)

@72redz1903 tweeted
@AbzPodcast Hearing that Hibs are trying tae gazu (2022) twitter link
ma loon, looking forward tae hearing the podcast - ah the best ?? (2020) twitter link
the other in health - I keep hearing aboot box sets, baking, diy, (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
d Absolutely I am scunnered o hearing them noo any others bug ye no(2020)
orking for an aul lad wee two hearing aids yesterday every time I t(2020)

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
ugh. I can definitely imagine hearing that fae a Glesga spikker. Do(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
y! Turn the volume doon on ma hearing aid, a wee night cap at hame (2018)

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
dominie may have been hard of hearing, but I certainly am not," ann on page 1

1 matches

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
@ILawson27 I’m hearing increasing rumours that AS is (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ichols since the incident, at hearing this Evans’ face turned a c
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
w mentioned three times in my hearing that Derry is only fifteen. A
1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 102 - Editorial: Jean Tamson’s Bairns, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
orby comes intil this. We are hearing new vyces screivin in Scots a on page 9

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 56 - In The Classroom, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
gional teacher for those with Hearing difficulties. She daundered i on page 37

1 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
quality til a fair and public hearing frae a staund-alane and evenh
1 matches

@ionafyfe tweeted
Looking forrit ti meeting an hearing ye!(2019)

@jack_capener tweeted
talking, but something about hearing @ionafyfe pronounce words wit(2018)

@jax6754 tweeted
lookin forward tae seein and hearing @Scouting4Girls at this years(2017)
ries guys, I look forward tae hearing it when it's up, as it will c(2018)

@billykayscot tweeted
Hearing about the latest Tory power g(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Perhaps it needs a hearing aid on page 25

1 matches

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
5/86, she was excited fir her hearing transformation. Then some few(2020)

General Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
few pleasures as profound as hearing the proper pronunciation of "(2017)