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The word 'hooever'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hooeverOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.33118
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 31 5 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 19.7 15 7
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)

Occurrences of hooever in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
s wan thing sure and certain, hooever sore the heid, on page 29

1 matches

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
ould be deuing better things. Hooever, they left the shop and conte
1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
Hooever, da Young Yarl didna gie in s on page 35

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
Hooever, she still managed tae raise
1 matches

General Northern

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 58 - The Bothy Loon, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
Hooever, I took his arles and never l on page 124

2 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
here fur made ony sense ata'. Hooever, Ah sometimes winder that if on page 10

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
t hame afore her stepsisters. Hooever, when she went tae put the wa on page 84

1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
es an’ we cannae let it oot hooever we cut wur wrists an’ belie
1 matches

Sands, Finn THE GHAISTLY FITBAW MATCH, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
irst thoucht wis tae rin awa. Hooever, he decidit tae heid oot, an
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ae the warld tae be lik this. Hooever Usefu it is tae the Wanderers
day - waashin wad be token, hooever - this wis a mine, for heive
o somethin she cud ask aboot, hooever indireckly. The suggestion th
Hybridisation wisna, hooever, a topic tae be approached wi
Hybridisation wisna, hooever, a topic tae be approached wi
5 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
chled - no a plain bit breid, hooever: this yin wis slaistered wi d on page 35
She kent, hooever, that it wisna that simple. W on page 59

2 matches

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
McLellan. Kemp an Reid, hooever, cam bi a different gate. The on page 37

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
ance, associatin words sic as hooever an mairower can help tae upha on page 11

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
'Aye,' said Heehaw. 'Hooever,' he said, brichtenin a wee, on page 9
boonces oot o Teeger, because hooever muckle ye liked him, ye could on page 103
rin tae Wee Grumphie, because hooever mony lenths o string they tri on page 133

3 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
eats or dunts. Fur Borderers, hooever, lealtie tae the family wi it on page 126

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
wi a series o gey impressive, hooever depressin, victories. Haudin
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
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gh tae be deein in that ditch hooever.(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
e doors for fear o infection. Hooever, ah'll still be pittin up the(2020)
cannae argue agin yer point. Hooever, ye shairly cannae deny in tu(2021)
ns' hauns than a did teachin. Hooever, a met mony great bairns who (2020)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
tit wi they fantouche Greeks, hooever, chyngin veectims o abuse int on page 59

1 matches

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