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The word 'hoverin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hoverinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus62011
ORK - Orkney
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 30.1 6 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 3
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 hoverin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
te see a cloud o shite flees hoverin abeen him. on page 32

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
s sure he cud see a heat haze hoverin abeen the widden fleerboords. on page 41

1 matches

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
e lift wis grey; black cloods hoverin oot by. Aathing seemed grey a on page 42

1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
e put his hauns furrit, palms hoverin twa inches abin the metal. Th on page 1

1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
a split-new bit o chalk, wis hoverin near the grey-black scrievin on page 213

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
horrific dark cloud that’s hoverin oor ma heid. And as ah observ
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
. He spins roon wae his hands hoverin over the bottles. on page 14

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
steak bake and a black coffee hoverin in ma vision. Sometimes its g on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
his gear an a few cunts come hoverin aboot the bar, like flies roo
1 matches

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
all remain nameless, but were hoverin oan the periphery ay success.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter TA Hauf an a Hauf, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
air like ghostly apparitions, hoverin seemingly indefinitely as eac
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
get there, his clenched fist hoverin oer the door. Seein me comin,
1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
bleck neb fidgit wi pleesure, hoverin a blink in yin poseetion for on page 63

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
The muckle gless lift wis noo hoverin high ower the toun. Inside th on page 170
The lift wis noo hoverin ower the roof o the Baffies' on page 172

2 matches

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
ooin an blaw-dryin the gress. Hoverin richt afore the holo-exit wis on page 8
er an saw ane o the doughnuts hoverin abuin them. Whan the driver s on page 9
neb tae a pair o Perjinkians hoverin on the side o a gress road. on page 12
wheeched ower the heids o the hoverin crood an disappeared intae th on page 25

5 matches

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