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The word 'hull'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hullOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.53512
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 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 325.5 2 1
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern 57.6 13 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 2
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hull in Corpus

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Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
'Meerie Meggie's' red, roosty hull, John filled wi sorrow as his
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
awl, we fyberglais cuveren er hull, cus shi weis a fayer aige, a on page 55
jallopy startet tae gin doon hull aifter aat, a theink a jist w on page 67

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
ed, an smashed the boatie’s hull, till Birly Wheel thocht they
1 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
Silver Sea, Robin Hull, Steve Savage, London and Edi on page 124

1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 63 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
n frae verses written by Alan Hull, an it fairly breenges alang.
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 77 - Whaur Gadie Rins, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
he same name, nae far fae the hull o Bennachie. on page 55
less oonchancy. E hull was playin a game wi's; an, a on page 56

2 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
the hull, wyde ower the burn an stoite
e’r gear you drappit on the hull, an
up the hull?”
“Yon hull leuks awfie stey!” interrup
ck on oo stertit tae clim the hull up tae the tap o the watterfa
13 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
HULL-O HULL-O WE ARE THE BILLY BOYS HULL- on page 69

4 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
as the sun raise ower Loudoun Hull, an tuik the auld bridle pad on page 67

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
e afore the tulzie at Loudoun Hull in 1307, he wis also gien us on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
p at the kye at the tap o the hull? The young bull says tae the on page 7

3 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
ckle passages o Scots fae the hull fowk. https://t.co/fur9AyBBA2(2020)
ugh this wey, sae nae drookit hull folk in Fife the day!(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
stappit intae hull an widden burran, on page 31

1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
spake ony Ulster Scots doonby Hull? (2015) twitter link