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The word 'houls'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
houlsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1105
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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) 153.7 3 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 54.5 3 1

Occurrences of houls in Corpus

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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Whaur ceevilisation houls nae sway, on page 6
Tha drummer houls his canes on page 33

3 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Houls dear frae days lang bye. on page 33

1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ns - Libraries Norlin Airlan houls nine sich collections. Nae do on page 52
risk airt o' media waark bit houls at wi' in the nex' 5 yeirs he on page 55

2 matches

@Rosehill_girl tweeted
Ah, ma hairt houls this thocht nearhan theday! ? (2021) twitter link

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
he haes nae ruits, ït onlie houls wi hïm fer a wee while. Whan on page 9
¯s mercie bides wi thaim that houls hïm ïn reverence, richt doo on page 70
t tae Lot's guidwife! Whaiver houls on tae hïs life wull loass à on page 99

3 matches

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