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The word 'hostin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hostinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11713
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 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 hostin in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
d apo da hertstaen, crexin an hostin, ithin a clood o reek an ess. on page 35

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
u tocht better o luikin up or hostin. on page 86

1 matches

Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ts. Da noise o aa fower o dem hostin an crexin wis enoch tae drive
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Ae parteeclar nicht, Neil wis hostin a seleck pairty o ten, wi a p
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
first time in 47 year. Turra hostin Maud in i Bazuka Cup third ro(2019)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - TROUBLE WI WITTGENSTEIN, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
Andra an stairted bouffin an hostin like he'd swallied a poke o p on page 86

1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
nbeiss cam a crauchillin an a hostin.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 147, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
interestit in takin a turn at hostin the competition sometime in t
1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
nor time tae sail wi a michty hostin o ships an tak England fir oo on page 14

3 matches

@ionafyfe tweeted
Affa excited tae be hostin this @OorVyce event the nicht(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
The @RobertBurnsNTS museum is hostin a Family Funfair games day th (2018) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
r the cloods tae brak ?? Ah'm hostin an Oor Vyce meet oan Thursday(2020)
condary schuils in the region hostin the Scots Award. Ye think KA (2020)