A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hints'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hintsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.899
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 hints in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
eff In a drain aside the road hints at roadkilled Whitemaa scaven(2020)

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
trel sniffer too :) There are hints of pilau rice, auld books, da(2016)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ae share nae maitter fit mony hints! http://t.co/UEDNvruw9L(2015)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
n community. Includes tips an hints aboot methods. Click on: http (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Naewey tae bide, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
ilk, ‘Sleep in the Park’, hints tae it bein a glorified muisi
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
tae pick up a hale barrage o hints ower the months - he wis aye
1 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
untamed and fresh and clean; hints of the Scottish sea so far aw
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
She hints fur mair information, and ah on page 92

1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
for tae negotiate a union, wi hints o weir gin thay failt. Syne a
1 matches

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