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The word 'hydra'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hydraOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6124
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 412.8 9 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hydra in Corpus

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North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
n hame until ye've killed the Hydra." on page 10
The Hydra on page 11
a strang stomach. The hackit Hydra didna bother him. Feart at no on page 12
aun, Hercules breenged at the Hydra and hacked yin o its heids af on page 13

9 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ain moons – Charon, Nix an Hydra – wheechin aboot it, but, f
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
verything. We must become the hydra that they cannae get rid of. (2022) twitter link

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
tter let oot fur tae big thon hydra-lectric thaing doon thonner? on page 29

1 matches

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