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Use in varieties of Scots

hiss Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.8 7.1 4.5 9.9 5.8 10.3 8.9
Number of occurrences2214 3 1 1 1 2
Number of authors17 9 3 1 1 1 2

Occurrences of hiss in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
rin unner afore, when a sherp hiss made her draw back in a hurry on page 52

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
The diesel hiss sounds n the doors ae the sch on page 44

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Aa birrless but the serpent's hiss. on page 91

1 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
h orders, gas pipes hauch and hiss, on page 91

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
uck. Insteed, aw she done wis hiss at me. Cool as you like "Sill on page 59

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
scaly cratur gave a terrifyin hiss as it rearit up an cam at the on page 79

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
where! Geordie could hear the hiss o air escapin, like somebody on page 42

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
maister waukent, heard draps hiss an dee, on page 22
Aa birrless but the serpent's hiss. on page 54
Heat o hurry, hiss o heest on page 57

3 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 59 - In Dispraise o Eden, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Aa birrless but the serpent's hiss. on page 91

1 matches

Mortimer, Cara Bewaur o th tap tap tap, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
red tae me in a bluid-curdlin hiss,
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
g doon the spike wae a gentle hiss. Whenever that happened, ah a
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
n doon the spike wae a gentle hiss. Whenever that happent, ah ay
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
he steed 'er grun An clookit, hiss't an spat on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
radise Club in Marmaris, wi a hiss an a splooter an a great cloo on page 7

1 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
d been wanderan, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry on page 50

1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Orkney Gruffalo, (Itchy Coo 2015 ISBN: 978-1785300066) Orkney, weans
"I hear a hiss in that leaves ower there." on page 15

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
xt shö kent, dey wir a sharp hiss at med her draa back ageen la on page 53

1 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
d bin wanderin, when a shairp hiss made hur draw back in a hurry on page 51

1 matches

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
waakin baelow, whin a shairp hiss made hir draa baak in a hurry on page 52

1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
er! Maks a quare an satisfyin hiss whan you dae it richt! (2015) twitter link

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