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The word 'hawn'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hawnOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.5357
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 153.7 30 3
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
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 20 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hawn in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
uid tae see yer still makinÂ’ hawn sanitizer....hopefully een oÂ(2020)

West Central

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
yelped. Abby swiftly put her hawn e'er Livvy's mouth, no tryin
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
tae mah Huey wi a pint in wan hawn an a hanky wipin away the tea on page 3
hawn oan tap ae it tae stoap her f on page 4
e says, cuppin the mic wi wan hawn an stickin the other in his p on page 6
ads. Then ah see him wave his hawn an in comes that big daft bou on page 8
Disco an ahm Mo.' He puts his hawn oot fur me tae © shake. | | on page 10
Also on pages 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 26, 30, 31, 60
17 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
permanently raised state. Her hawn slowly moves tae her notepad on page 12
Ah hawn ower a twenty quid note. Ah'l on page 18
Ah grab his hawn and power through the cloud a on page 19
's iways cauld. She reaches a hawn oot towards the heater under on page 22
m Robbie, he says, extendin a hawn. 'So sorry fur yer loss. But on page 25
Also on pages 28
9 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
e no hud whelks in years.' Ah hawn the bag tae mah da an he star on page 2
baws. Lhe sword faws fae his hawn an intae the mud. on page 175
rout. The sword flies oot his hawn an the other polis is over at on page 176

3 matches

Atkins, Elise Billy Barr ’n’ Jonny Jimison’s Day Oot!, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Central, prose
es, lollipops the size ae yer hawn, big jawrs ae humbugs an’ s
1 matches

Ayrshire

Wallace, Lorna A Scot’s Lament fur her American Fellows (Oan their election of a tangerine gabshite walloper)., (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2016) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Ti hawn’ this walloper the key
1 matches

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
stans aboot aw day, stroop in hawn'. But then again, the kettle (2021) twitter link
stans aboot aw day, stroop in hawn'. But then again, the kettle (2021)