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The word 'hallions'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hallionsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus15.4513
ORK - Orkney
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
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) 71.4 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 1393.3 49 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hallions in Corpus

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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
A crew o rakin hallions, on page 35
In Iraq carnaptious ISIS hallions on page 38

2 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
o mony points dae tha Belfast hallions gie a cratur for cloddin tha (2019) twitter link
stin @CFlanaghan Fair faa ye, hallions: Armstrong gied thon moon yar (2015) twitter link
There's aye a wheen o hallions garravashin aboot the clachan (2014) twitter link
Thon German hallions wull hae tae wait for a quare (2015) twitter link
Thon Scotch hallions fae across the sheuch @scotsl (2014) twitter link
and 42 other occurrences.

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
@SonzyB Some hallions aboot???! (2021) twitter link
easugarsweets Aye, afore thon hallions arrive!!! (2021) twitter link