A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hett'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hettOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.5355
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 98.1 30 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
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 hett in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
the ferm o Steenhillock. The hett sun beat doon on the heather
o a fairmer's lassie. She wis hett an swyty an trauchelt, an gle
east the fairmhoose wis warm, hett, clean,an weel-plenished. Nan
r the hairst park. It wis sae hett that Isie lowsed the tap thre
oon your age. I'll poor a sup hett watter inno the basin, an cle
14 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
osh her. Gin the sun wis ower hett she throosh her. Gin the win
os, fas idea o a stooshie wis hett Gospellin an spikkin in tongu
he Yird's scruif wis firie an hett. wi neuks hotterin awa in cau
3 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
he nails began tae really get hett an that wiz fan the chappin a
the crack-crackin o the reed hett iron fae the fire. She let it
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
n roon an roon afore the reed hett bullet stopped and drapped do
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
It wis a byordnar hett day in the zoo. Even the monk
nkeys , “An it’s bin that hett aa ma flooers hiv crined an d
hett rowies imno the backet..
ted tae chitter. Gerbils like hett places, their fur is short an
here. It’s fine an cosy an hett. Wid ye LIKE tae bide here?â€
10 matches

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
owly doon his legs, the weet, hett sticky piddles sypin inno his
1 matches

General Northern

Reid, Adeline Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Clootie Duff, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
h it oot o the pot an steemin hett, kweelin doon, jist lat it be on page 21

2 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
serve baith the cauld an the hett
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
this wie hul-toun, an thai aw hett, laith, cry doun an calumpnia on page 1

1 matches

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