A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hows'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
howsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 12.7 5 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 hows in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
by mesel and git stuff done! Hows du been keepin?? X (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Hows yur sister Lucy, gittin oan?' on page 38

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
3Threestripes @LiviFCOfficial hows that likes - snow covered as (2021) twitter link
@JakeMoyes1108 hows it gaun lord lucan lol (2021) twitter link
emur24 @cdolan8 @TheFootyFact hows ma laddie getting oan - sorr (2020) twitter link
hows about this eosfl - lthv prof (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
n he shoutet, Aw right Kirsty hows it gaun ma wee mucker, anen h on page 169

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
So hows aboot takin ti thi dance flai on page 100

1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
'Hows the last couple of weeks been on page 2

1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
delish. Now........ahm........hows yir AGiftADay goin? Happy wee(2015)