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The word 'hearan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hearanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7156
ORK - Orkney 99.4 10 4
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 140.7 4 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
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
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 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 hearan 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

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
sie: Oh, Maggie o Quoys, am I hearan right? on page 23

1 matches

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
if you hae a bit o sense whin hearan o this tale, on page 82

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
edge o smirk an hearan Margit's "Ir thoo." on page 9
eck. The baest cam fae ahint. Hearan a knark, he golders, "Clossed on page 59
the fock aa ower the staetion hearan in twatree oor, or mibbe less on page 63
is hearan hidsel, is less an less real on page 84

4 matches

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
spaelleens an relyan on fokk 'hearan' wirds as Orcadian be the con on page 8

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
sie: Oh, Maggie o Quoys, am I hearan right? on page 77

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
aabody on the staetions hearan
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
istic – an in wirds ye miss hearan, yir wirk affens tends tae th
1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
waited for some time withoot hearan anything more: at last came a on page 36
micht tell her somethin worth hearan. For some meenads id puffed a on page 43
ntill e wood for fear o their hearan her; an when she next peeped on page 54
opened his eyes awful wide on hearan iss; boot all he sade wis, "W on page 65

4 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
hearan grandfaither, baith humble ta on page 112

1 matches

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