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The word 'hector'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hectorOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4139
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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 hector in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
that poor lad - his neem wis Hector Broon. His faimily lived in a on page 68

1 matches

General Northern

Clark, F. E. Eemis Stane 1 - Vratched, (Eemis Stane 2022) Doric, prose
ma. Just hud ma han an dinnae hector ma - for Ahm vratched an A w on page 23

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@hibeesfamily hector brocklebank fae hb fash wis a (2021) twitter link
@WickAcademyFC do u work for hector brockelbank - from hb fash? (2020) twitter link

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
hor's Address to his Auld Dog Hector merks a cheynge o directioun, on page 141
hor's Address to his Auld Dog Hector. on page 142

2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
the chest then smashed Young Hector’s drum an’ gelded the pai
1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
e Bevellers (1973). Meantime, Hector Macmillan wis screivin pleys on page 40

2 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - review, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
s rowthieness: Robert Kemp an Hector MacMillan gies Molière a vyc on page 109

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
intoun, the weel-kent scholar Hector Boece wrate a Latin history o
1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
kki Fulton in the lead), thro Hector MacMillan’s The Misanthrope
younger screivars was gangin. Hector MacMillan’s Molière owerse
2 matches

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