Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hooks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

hooks	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.8	16	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	4.9	2	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.1	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	10.5	8	2
SEA - South East (Borders)	12.5	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)	51.2	1	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hooks in Corpus

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Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
ks" fae da sand using "hjuks"(hooks ).

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
'Bi the hooks an crooks o the road'
1 matches

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
ikit and hung it on the row o hooks neist tae the front door. The on page 41

1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
i spinning reels attached and hooks at the business end. So far s
enormous worms. He baited oor hooks and we started tae fish.
2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
hacks him twice wae two right hooks. We watch in slow motion as A on page 27

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
, at the end o which were twa hooks insteid o haunds. There wis a on page 47
's theatre troupe, the wan wi hooks for haunds, staunin in the fr on page 89
mannie pit yin o his fearsome hooks on Klaus's shooder, "I think on page 90
id up again and pit baith his hooks richt in front o Klaus's face on page 91
failin tae bite the mannie's hooks. on page 92
Also on pages 118, 122
7 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
e back up, and I laugh, so he hooks uz again in the same place on
1 matches

South East (Borders)

The Westender Loupin Salmon, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
in' ontae the slope wi muckle hooks tied tae sticks. Cleeks, a hi
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
All exercise ma muckle hooks on page 6

1 matches