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The word 'halp'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
halpOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus16.6555
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 38.7 15 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 186 30 2
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 163.5 9 1

Occurrences of halp in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
e buird. Cherlie wisna muckle halp, he telt the laddie, on page 58

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
“Tel me whitwey ye canna halp ?”
ti len hir shairp intellek ti halp
til onie keing thai think wul halp
fur giein him ane inveit ti halp an waggit hiz tail wi glie.
e nicht an rescoursed, wi the halp o monie ceitezans o
14 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
lryfe Powl. Aw wes reddies ti halp in ma graithins, a bourach o on page 1

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
ok lik me canna dae mukkil ti halp ye tilt. The sairvice semes t on page 2
day it mote be in ma pouer ti halp ye. Hecht ti sen fur me." on page 3

2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
ei, lik shae wes priggin fur halp. Barbar thocht o ane idaia an on page 46

2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
uir, sayed ‘Jings!’ an ‘Halp ma bob!’ an alse ‘Ti Hekk
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
juist be somebody seekin his halp wi the bureaucracy or wi exam
he weemen. She didna need ony halp wi her hair, bit they were th
tae get tae Nilyungun. If ye halp me, there’ll be a reward.
“Ye hiv tae halp yer brither, Rongye, ma dawti
tae thee. Sho says Ah’m tae halp thee wi the langage.” He sa
24 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
wk A hae tae thank fur aa the halp an encouragement. on page 1

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
faither or mither, 'Whutiver halp ye wud hae got frae me A hae on page 9
ae amang iz. God haes cum tae halp hïs fowk oot." on page 81
cht hïm tae yer follaers tae halp hïm, but the' cudnae dae ït on page 86
ation tae dae wrang, but dear halp tha yin that daes tha tempin! on page 98
ot fowk, stïll wi aa, A wull halp oot thïs weeda wumman, for s on page 100
Also on pages 105
9 matches

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