A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

hawd Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 5.6 0 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1211 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of hawd in Corpus

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Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
lammy an weak, like grabbin a hawd ae a deid _ fish. Ah hink abo on page 13
icely. How dae they look?' Ah hawd up the drawers tae Dolly. She on page 26
wist, 'her,' twist, 'phone?', hawd. on page 28
run fur it but Parker gets a hawd ae him. on page 31

4 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
hat nice Shane" "Cannae get a hawd ay 'um...phones ringin oot... on page 3

1 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
They obviously wurr tryin tae hawd oan tae how auld they wurr fi
1 matches

Wallace, Lorna A Scot’s Lament fur her American Fellows (Oan their election of a tangerine gabshite walloper)., (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2016) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Hawd oan ti values you hold dear,
1 matches

Wallace, Lorna Tae A Selfie, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2014) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
A hawd oan tae ma bevvy ticht
1 matches

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Hawd up, Grado, it's yersel', Eh?
Hawd on, the sun's oot! TAPS AFF!
2 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
@16daniel90 hawd oan tae a get the violin oot.(2014) search twitter

Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
Ave jus hawd Santy pass me hoose @raiphsay(2020) search twitter