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The word 'hive'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hiveOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus93012
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 17.7 4 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 49 19 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 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)
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 hive 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.

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ors, days, years oan end - a hive on page 3

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
tae echt, expectin tae see a hive o activity
1 matches

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
ark ('at's a gye guid erse ye hive on Outlander ) (2018) twitter link
ark ('at's a gye guid erse ye hive on (2018) twitter link

@fittiecrooners tweeted
being a Fittie Loon & seen ya hive spruced up the auld pilots bo(2018)

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
on roond aboot the doors. Ye hive tae listen tae them, in case on page 8
hey gan on, Ah kin because Ah hive tae admit, Ah'll jine in jist on page 9
k Ah wisnae wise-like, bit ye hive tae winder sometimes. on page 10
Weel, ye hive tae say that the fishin's no on page 12
a long time theirsells, they hive a feel fur it, an' while they on page 13
Also on pages 14, 15, 21, 24, 26, 28, 29, 37
18 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Noo dinnae worry ower that hive
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
‘’But at the Hive last month. It wis your roond
1 matches

Glasgow

Kennedy, Julie Ma Mum and William Wordsworth, (Howkin Words Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1399988971) Central, prose
ide a hoose shaped like a bee hive, nae windaes. Mr Twaddle, the on page 16

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e. Naeboady cares though; the hive mind; the collective soul ay
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Ah cannae hive ye in hauf-licht, on page 64

1 matches

Shepherd, J. Barrie Lallans 82 - Forth Brig, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
They hive tae stert in again at the ith on page 28

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
hive o thrangity, fock gangin aboo
1 matches

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