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Use in varieties of Scots

hive Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9.1 11.8 6 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences2923 4 1 0 1 0
Number of authors11 6 3 1 1

Occurrences of hive in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Ah cannae hive ye in hauf-licht, on page 64

1 matches

Shepherd, J. Barrie Lallans 82 - Forth Brig, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
They hive tae stert in again at the ith on page 28

1 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
on roond aboot the doors. Ye hive tae listen tae them, in case on page 8
hey gan on, Ah kin because Ah hive tae admit, Ah'll jine in jist on page 9
k Ah wisnae wise-like, bit ye hive tae winder sometimes. on page 10
Weel, ye hive tae say that the fishin's no on page 12
a long time theirsells, they hive a feel fur it, an' while they on page 13
Also on pages 14, 15, 21, 24, 26, 28, 29, 37
18 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Noo dinnae worry ower that hive
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e. Naeboady cares though; the hive mind; the collective soul ay
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
‘’But at the Hive last month. It wis your roond
1 matches

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
tae echt, expectin tae see a hive o activity
1 matches

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
ark ('at's a gye guid erse ye hive on Outlander ) (2018) twitter link
ark ('at's a gye guid erse ye hive on (2018) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
being a Fittie Loon & seen ya hive spruced up the auld pilots bo(2018) search twitter

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ors, days, years oan end - a hive on page 3

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
hive o thrangity, fock gangin aboo
1 matches

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