A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hew'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hewOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.483
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 42.7 4 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 1
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 hew 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.

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Or jerseys, o’ whitivir hew,
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
outs aboot yon young Reverend Hew Campbell that's hingin aboot on page 24
the Synod - an the Reverend Hew Campbell tuik on page 39
d an certain, his ee still on Hew Campbell, wha sat laich an bo on page 41
had seen her grandfaither Sir Hew Campbell o Cessnock forfeit h on page 66

4 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
Hew, Sword, Hew. on page 14

3 matches

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