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The word 'hoaliday'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hoalidayOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.1179
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
GLA - Glasgow 41 8 4
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 72.7 4 1

Occurrences of hoaliday in Corpus

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Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
e eleventh day must've been a hoaliday?" on page 96

1 matches

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'Och, gies peace. Ahm oan hoaliday fur fuck sake!' She joost tut on page 15
e morra's the last day ae the hoaliday an ah want it tae be a belter on page 17
granny an granda aw went oan hoaliday. Mah da didnae want tae come on page 104

3 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
. Quality. We'dda thrived oan hoaliday here, as weans, We'd designat on page 3

3 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
look like a bloody Butlin’s hoaliday camp. Still though, we didnae
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
ed Wugs wha wis gaun aff on a hoaliday tae America tae see relatives on page 23

1 matches

General Central

@fairpechtoot tweeted
s oot tae me when we were oan hoaliday! https://t.co/0UkPgH9LwE(2017)

@LairnScots tweeted
iday at this time acause this hoaliday has been yaised fir this in t (2019) twitter link
airners - hope ye hae a guid hoaliday! Keep yer een oot fir some br (2018) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
in Dervel? Must hae been his hoaliday hame ??(2020)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
this bes a saiconn address or hoaliday hame)
es awa frae wark no weel, oan hoaliday or laid aff by-whyles
rairin a newboarn babbie, oan hoaliday or by-whyles laid aff), gie t
rae hame whaniver warkin, oan hoaliday or trevellin ( less ootbye th
4 matches

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