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The word 'hoy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hoyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82512
ORK - Orkney 89.4 9 4
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 55.6 4 2
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 hoy in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
We tossed and dived alongside Hoy and I saa the great 'Owld Man on page 21
er and you'll see the hills o Hoy. on page 37
tray and the high Ward Hill o Hoy on page 48
er when we meed that trip tae Hoy? on page 63

5 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Lupins, corbies, the hills o Hoy - on page 26

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Sunrays abune the Hoy hills on page 18

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
the Hoy hills so near I could almost on page 26
power o the sea, the hills o Hoy darkening on page 27

2 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Seeven heevens o a Hoy moarnin on page 27
shooer darkens da shooders o Hoy. on page 28

4 matches

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ies, tak a SUPPIE sulphurick, hoy in a PICKIE copper sulphate p (2020) twitter link

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
Hoy! https://t.co/DCDndBfJ0q(2020)

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
. She had a sudden norrie tae hoy the stane straicht at the fig on page 6
," Violet telt him. "We could hoy them oot the windae and try a on page 130

2 matches

McClure, Derrick J. , (no publisher recorded 2017) Central, poetry
Hoy, Fireflaucht! Hoy, Freya! Hoy, Thunner an Levin!
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
lease tell me afore an Ah’l hoy on oot
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
hoy yer drink aroon this city, on page 27
hoy covers aff when guests are ke on page 39
Ah'll smoor it in shampoo an hoy it in watter. on page 66

3 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
aiblins no the best wird tae hoy aboot thir days! Howp yer caa(2020)

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