Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hark'

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Use in varieties of Scots

hark	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.8	16	15
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
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	10.5	1	1
DOR - General Northern	13.3	3	3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.2	2	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	7.9	6	6
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 hark in Corpus

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Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Still hark doon the ears on page 13

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
only hae ta hark in Time's lug, juist igg him on page 72

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Pipes ging quaet Hark till the drum Standards raise on page 15

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
echtie-sax kintras. Wheesht! Hark noo till Ewan MacColl giein u
1 matches

Aberdeen

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
We only hark back tae the past
1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
Come aan an hark, or vyce o care Wi fraacht o on page 8

1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
k in the Bruntlands when they hark back tae the great storm o '8 on page 118

1 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
tae a sweel, I hear a ferlie hark … it could be the breeze or
1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
Then they'll gan on tae hark back at onythin' they've ever on page 8

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
An hark ! the thunner o his hooves.
1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Until Ah heard a lass hark on page 11

1 matches

McLeish, Alistair Lallans 102 - Eco Cheil, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
Haw! Creish multi-colourt yob Hark to the lifeworld's throb', As on page 41

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
O guids an siller, hark an heed on page 18

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Five sonnets o Cecco Angiolieri (1250-1319), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
The brock at hes me - hark an think a wee - on page 45

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
screivins, bit if we are tae hark at aa the vices o modren Scot on page 56

1 matches

solonggaybowser Merlin's Bairns, (archiveofourown.org 2020) Central, prose
"Dinnae hark him, Cran-Cran! Ye'r the anel
1 matches