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The word 'hags'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hagsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.794
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 53.4 5 1
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hags in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
ey hid's mad nou, is a gustie hags. Thare's dictionars at offer
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
These hags, huddled on this stone bench: on page 63

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
9. The Riven Peat-hags on page 112

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
puir hill gress an bleak peat hags, haudin nae mair nor a score on page 25
ht merry dance ower thé moss-hags till he wis foully betrayed a on page 30
he mist for a day on the peat hags, while she busied hersel redd on page 45
y - wad gang up tae the peat-hags wi their faither an stack the on page 74
the wee braeface tae the peat-hags. 'I'm gled the laddies are st on page 75

5 matches

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