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The word 'hailsteens'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hailsteensOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.554
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
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 hailsteens in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Hailsteens in April - aats the lowse i'(2016)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@the4_est @Stovies6 Hailsteens in 'rurie(2019)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
p stracht at aa. It flung the hailsteens in yer face, shot-blastin yer on page 29

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
e gun bullets comin at ye lik hailsteens, the reek o the grave aa aboo on page 15

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Flurries o sna, an hailsteens as weel,
1 matches

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