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The word 'hump'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
humpOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.61513
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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) 88.3 1 1
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 hump in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
wis baldan wi a great muckle hump in his back! on page 42

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ma belly in as lang, Ah've a hump in my bloody back." on page 13
s hairy hanbug an stairtit te hump it like it wis his last on page 32

2 matches

General Northern

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
inner the oil chiefs teen the hump
1 matches

@daleser23 tweeted
Bayern are gan to fuckin hump us(2014)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
like a camel - aways got the hump - chilloot santa is oan his (2020) twitter link
just finished watchin algeria hump botswana in the africas cup - (2021) twitter link

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
same An’ Jazza goat an awfy hump.
1 matches

Dundee

McKenzie, Roddy Cataracts, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2018) Central - Dundee, prose
gh. Seems everybodys goat thi hump thi day. Yi like this place,
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
cuid say, gin I tuik it up my hump," the Duchess reponed, gey pl on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Jist Hoo the Camel Got His Hump, on page 159

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Stella Marie's took the hump wi me efter Cathy's party, an on page 50

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
t @ClydeFC We REALLY need tae hump this lot the day. Look whit t(2019)

@Chazzbat tweeted
cial distancin. Unless we dry hump inanimate objects, like dugs (2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
strut an thomp ye hump aboot on page 26

1 matches

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