A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hoosumivver'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hoosumivverOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.1172
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 98.8 17 2
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
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 hoosumivver 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.

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ish an Scots bit no Shaetlan. Hoosumivver, maist Shaetlan spaekers dunn on page 7
ory an character o a culture. Hoosumivver, language firbye dat is capit on page 9
eight idda middle o da 1980s. Hoosumivver, as yit de ir nae description on page 10
s lang an short vowels baith. Hoosumivver, de'r no wint tae distinguish on page 28
s', binort 'northwards', etc; hoosumivver, da stressed by is da last el on page 38
Also on pages 45, 47, 53, 54, 72, 77, 90, 97
15 matches

Sandison, Iris Da Tree Peerie Grice, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, weans
ould be in dir peerie hooses. Hoosumivver, ee drushy day i da hairst, d
1 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
o Northumbrian Aald English, hoosumivver, alang wi Scots, nivver witte

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