A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

hesitate Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.4 2 4.4 0 0 0 4.8
Number of occurrences84 3 0 0 0 1
Number of authors8 4 3 1

Occurrences of hesitate in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
e nae mair shed.' She saw him hesitate then go oan up the stairs. Si on page 1

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
I get you now, or have tahhh hesitate." on page 3

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
he time ever comes, thoo’ll hesitate tae kill a fellae human bein.
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
slightly. And as a result, ah hesitate tae make any sudden movements
1 matches

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
operated as weel, he didnae hesitate, jist pit his name doon an le
1 matches

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
hoices in life. but I don’t hesitate tae say yi will cus yur a bri
1 matches

The Flying Pigs Multiple choice voting leaves city cooncil facing, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
o’ Feel Moira, fa will nae hesitate tae knock it oot o’ the sky
1 matches

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
It disnae wait nor hesitate at ta fir onieyin. on page 47

1 matches

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