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The word 'hose'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hoseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.81910
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 22.9 7 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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) 88.3 1 1
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 hose in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
For a mercy thir wis a hose handy, an wae hid tae hose do on page 17

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
s brither, wis riggit in lang hose tucked in aneth his knee-leng
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
rooth.. An onywye, ma gairden hose has holes in it. Aa ma wirk
neb luiks rale like a gairden hose fin ye think on’t.” Keckl
hid a rinny snoot, an fin her hose war rugged up tae her kness,
An aff wad come the hose, the blazer, the wee grey uni
glimmrin een an bumshayvelt hose fa likit peace an quate, whil
5 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
m hand held steam things wi a hose ti di jaikets and stuff on ha(2020)

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 77 - Whaur Gadie Rins, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
airn wad noo tak aff his fyte hose an sannals ; but thase bein s on page 56

2 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Rin throu the jungle, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
er flew ower tae it, tore the hose aff the sprinkler an stertit
1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
t that mony pairs o' sea-buit hose fur ma man that Ah sometimes on page 7
e suppose they'd need seabuit hose in they waarm climes, no nur on page 12
er hoo mony pairs o' sea-buit hose Ah've made fur him in aw the on page 23

3 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Or rauz the hose-gress, owergrown on page 40

1 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
neb like a coiled-up gairden hose. It gied a megamuckle sneeze on page 14

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A leaking hose or flat back tyre on page 40

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
His youthfa hose weel kep, a worl ower wide on page 52

1 matches

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