A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hound'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
houndOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.173
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
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 hound in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ate eyemask when campin wi da hound. Serenaded by snipe and whaup(2019)
ings and curlews - which the hound wants to chase. https://t.co/(2020)
Tomorrow I see my adorable hound. It's the longest I've been a(2016)
Da hound has a fondness for long lies,(2014)
@peediepuss Even da hound looks impressed ?? https://t.(2020)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ype! Ma Lyn really is a brave hound - she has taen tae sleeping (2019)

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
life tae the bastarts an they hound ye like a common criminal! Ah
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