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The word 'hursel'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hurselOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4143
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 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.7 11 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 hursel in Corpus

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Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
blue plastic overalls, a mask hursel, and a plastic shield ower hu
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
tae Lewis. Leanne cannae help hursel. Anyhin tae put doon ma girls on page 12
up. It's like she'd convinced hursel that whit happened isnae real on page 26
hur because she stuck up fur hursel. She didnae dae en'in. Nought on page 27
she only hus loyalty taeward hursel. It sums up hur weak-minded a on page 28
Granny as good as shite hursel when she spotted a clown in a on page 32
Also on pages 33, 35, 45, 63, 119
10 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
hursel on page 59

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
tter this time," she said tae hursel, an sterted b' takin th wee g on page 75

2 matches

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