A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hoof'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hoofOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81612
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 hoof in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
in mid-sentince, bi a pooerfu hoof in the shins fae Jinny. on page 36

1 matches

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
n Nick, he tripp't on his ain hoof. on page 19

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
a calfie's shank, frae horned hoof tae the knee. Bi this, the tw
le's a skirp o watter touchin hoof nor mane, wi the help o Auld
h. Fin he booed ower Prince's hoof she hatit tae watch him chapp
3 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - The Bruntie Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ne anither, words like cloven hoof an devil creatur o Bruntie, w
1 matches

TheChielMeister Nae mince in Moray, (youtube.com 2008) Doric, poetry
Hoof doon the wid, nip in the air
1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
weather @RSPCA_official will hoof yer baws tho!(2015)
Whau's seekin' a playful hoof in 'e ba's? #NutCracker #Bana(2015)

@72redz1903 tweeted
that playing Cosgrove means ‘hoof ball’ - it’s a completely (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
t hae diine a fair bit on the hoof aareadies. I'd hae ti insist on page 76

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
big bastart draggin its front hoof backwards, juttin it forward
1 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
ggestin' fur a minute thit ye hoof it o'er tae yon farawa' Tibet on page

2 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
les that aye wis, and waved a hoof at it. on page 26

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
Alba59 Coke On The Fraud Tory Hoof(2020)

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