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The word 'hoover'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hooverOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41816
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hoover in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Hid lukk'd as if the Hoover hidna seen much action ither. on page 25

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
And the hoover's oot o charge on page 71

1 matches

West, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Everywan's different - some hoover, some mop on page 74

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
lichteners. Noo A'm faerd I hoover up on page 31

1 matches

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
Ok. Dead spider. I’ll joost hoover hit up. Came at it we da hoov (2018) twitter link

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
She claims her hoover cuts oot every time she gings
1 matches

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
finished. Then ah tak oot the hoover and zip roon the kitchen and on page 44

1 matches

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - Iss place isnae big enuch for the baith o us , (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
sae floomp! intae the hoover ye ging. on page 78

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
a hoover an, went throo the chalet lik
1 matches

(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
b haun wi the dustin cloot an hoover, aye wiz, een noo heez hoose on page 78
've gein it a licht dustin an hoover een tho it didnae hae the nee on page 81

2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
r a fridge whilst Chris got a hoover an Charlene only managed a li on page 163

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
if ei'll be able ti yaze thi hoover? on page 100

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
e oot mah bra, roll it up, an hoover a big fat fuckin line. Mah fi on page 15

1 matches

General Central

@weenell3 tweeted
in1 @Neilson476 They can even hoover up the Binfire fae the Tories (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
as they want an Wild Boar hoover up on page 72

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
hiles she wud rin roon wi tha hoover an gie a dicht tae tha sculle on page 15

1 matches

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