A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hauld'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hauldOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.51811
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 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 27.3 6 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hauld in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ks which reeked and a hid tae hauld ma neb to stop me boaking. Th
1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
stilt-hauld oan the pool. The thrissel-se on page 16

1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
egs crossed until ah couldnae hauld it in any langer. Faither Mur on page 7

6 matches

General Central

Grace, Reyzl Eemis Stane 2 - Late Efternuin in the Hermitage, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, poetry
s easy thru stane. Insteid, A hauld ma haund on page 6

1 matches

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
legs crossed until ah cannae hauld it in any langer. Father Mart on page 14
ants tae be famous and cannae hauld a note so Pop Idol's oot the on page 36

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
He'll raise a bairn no his or hauld on page 18

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 59 - Eleiven Quad Bike Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Whase scroggs the white sheep hauld. on page 114

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 63 - Richt Scots an Pithy Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
Pittin pen tae paper lats us hauld furth in the arena o oor fore
1 matches

Smirnov, Kuzma , (Facebook 2015) Central, prose
n the Leid Festival thare wis hauld in baith leids simultaneously
1 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
@wor_Geordie_ @MarxistRangers Hauld yer horses n' see!! Lol ??(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Hear tha soond an hauld them dear on page 20

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
hedule! Ye’d think she could hauld her whist a wheen o days, but(2020)