Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'hook'

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Use in varieties of Scots

hook	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	24.3	81	25
ORK - Orkney	39.7	4	3
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	32.7	10	2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	8.9	2	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	14.6	6	6
WCE - West Central	8.9	2	2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.1	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	65.7	50	3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	27.9	2	2
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)	58.1	1	1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster	56.9	2	2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of hook 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

Hall, Simon W. The Orkney Gruffalo, (Itchy Coo 2015 ISBN: 978-1785300066) Orkney, weans
bly knees, an each toe haes a hook, on page 6
bly knees, an each toe haes a hook, on page 12

2 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
the churn afore hook-line, on page 15

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Hook on the yoke an retrace wir st on page 35

1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
y deid. There wis a pot, on a hook. That's me on page 19

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
t, An offin ye wid find a sma hook ena. Fur bait a wid sumtyme's on page 1
o as tae pet a feish on tvery hook, an matst tyme's he did. Ye c on page 3
h lad weis tryen tae tye on a hook, bit a theink hee's finnger's on page 61
nee's noo, steil eit thi saim hook. A speert em, "Ye sikken a ha on page 62

8 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ld - turnt inte a high-class hook - " on page 23
he kine o lassie ye'd like te hook up wi. Iv ye ask me, at's far on page 39

2 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
tak yer motor an sling yer hook on page 103

1 matches

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
in he went wi a lang metallic hook poking and scrappin at ma tee
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
mobile starts ringin oaf the hook at aboot half seven at night. on page 16

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
an wi a guid richt hook or twa
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
t, that disnae get us off the hook . Maist Scots were violent an
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
o licking a dish; but put Thy hook in his nose, and Thy bridle i
1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
e hall, took the keys fae the hook , unlocked the back door, and
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
nses - only a fifer cood faw hook line n sinker fir that tweet (2021) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
i a walkin stick so she could hook the bunnet aff the dook, and on page 24

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ll Lyndon tae sling his slimy hook. Pamela Sadler. She fancies L on page 169

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
erse if ye don’t sling yer hook ya cheeky wee bastart!’ ah
1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
hat the belt cud be hung on a hook. The belt wis designed so tha on page 42

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
on bairns," the mannie wi the hook-haunds said, "They've got tae on page 48
Olaf," said the mannie wi the hook-haunds, "you'll wirk oot some on page 54
en," Klaus said, shruggin the hook aff fae his shooder. "Awa and on page 90
hen it gets doon tae it," the hook-haundit mannie said evenly, t on page 91
Hearin the faint soonds o the hook-haundit mannie talkin tae Jud on page 92
Also on pages 94, 116, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 128, 129, 132, 148, 153, 158
47 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
Thur's even a flesh hook tae cut yer throat ...

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Vaults, nae Zeebrugge, Sandy Hook, Orlando nor Dunblane. on page 77

1 matches

McDonald, Hamish The Girnin Gates - Chapter 12, (Itchy Coo 2003) Central, prose
od dippin ower, but ee didnae hook it.
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Beauties fly hangs ain their hook on page 34

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Bae hook nor bae crook. on page 23

1 matches

Stewart, Kenny The Bread Van, (Facebook 2020) Ulster, poetry
It had a hook set in the end tae catch, the
1 matches