A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'houres'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
houresOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.581
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
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of houres in Corpus

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
gang-roond the Sun an taks 24 houres tae birl aboot itsel. At the
bittie langer nor oors at 24 houres an 37 meenits while the Mairt
the Sun but its day is jist 9 houres an 56 meenits lang. It is the
d the Sun while its day is 10 houres an 37 meenits lang. This swit
heen o reasons. Its day is 17 houres an 14 meenits lang but it tak
6 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
ae yer watch that the’r twa houres ye canna accoont for. Twa hai
e canna accoont for. Twa hail houres.
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