A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

hisel Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.8 4 7.5 0 0 62 0
Number of occurrences198 5 0 0 6 0
Number of authors7 4 2 1

Occurrences of hisel in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
He wis weel pleased wi hisel on page 21
Laughin' tae hisel' on page 24

2 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
giant luikin weill chuffit wi hisel. Sae Loki lichtit doun. on page 14

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
fower o the stories McLellan hisel haed made for the BBC in the on page 59

1 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
wi thon story... he wad heeze hisel up in a meinute or sae and he on page 17

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
he tod flytes the trap and no hisel. on page 80
the tod luiks efter hisel. on page 82

2 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
s. He rose tae his feet, gied hisel a shake and padded aff in tha
1 matches

Doric

Johnston, Mary Lallans 83 - Chief wi Een Anither, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
ys. Efter a fylie he streekit hisel oot in e sun an dichted his f on page 83
eesh in e crock an thocht til hisel, 'Nocht bit fen aathins aa ow on page 84

2 matches

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
tak pairt in a game o shinty hisel – an fit wey nae? Just thin
1 matches

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - Poacher, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ly flat on the grun tae raise hisel up. As his haun sank intae a
ya dancer, ya beauty” tae hisel ower an ower. Slippin farrer
2 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
ckle letter, nearly as big as hisel, an this hei haunded ower tae on page 54
watchin thum, an hei checked hisel suddenly: th ithers looked ro on page 77
r as ei spoke, an then raised hisel up oan tiptae, put eis mooth on page 81
" shouted th Gryphon, flingin hisel intae th air. on page 98
oot, an went oan mutterin tae hisel, "important - unimportant - on page 117
Also on pages 120
6 matches

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