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The word 'hawk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hawkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2149
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
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 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 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)
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 hawk 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.

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
and learn aboot Merlin/Peerie Hawk ?? https://t.co/081wJsziA1(2019)
eadow pipit and future Peerie Hawk / Smyril / Merlin chick meal (2019)

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
birds. A corbie, a jackdaw, a hawk an a skreichin magpie. An fin
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
id fand a likeness o Horus, a hawk weirin a croon, a kinno bird-
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
is spark, as in the sang Jock Hawk, wi the line 'its a wonder th (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Lallans 82 - The Banes o Alba, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
the hawk an the hairt on page 32

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ommunity like a speugie fae a hawk. An sae it wis that the cries on page 97

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
alive like a greedy gled or a hawk fae the ballads, or an ugsome on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Sangster, Maureen Lallans 104 - The Wild Burrds Shaw, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
An yer "selfie wi a hawk"? Jist peys fur grief. on page 75

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
hin the licht controls like a hawk, takkin notes in her heid jis on page 157

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
I'm no allowed a swallae-hawk, on page 18

1 matches

MacKenzie, Douglas Eemis Stane 1 - Puir Finch, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
And censure me the hungry hawk, on page 13

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
North Carolina flew the Kitty Hawk a hail fower mile afore haein
1 matches

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