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The word 'heavens'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heavensOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61814
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 98.5 3 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of heavens in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - The Three Hooses, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, weans
"Heavens, no," he sayed. "The anarchic
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@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
d lightning here daday and da heavens hiv joost opened #HitsDinging (2018) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Sanners Gow's Tales and Folklore of the Buchan - The Clootie Dummmplin!, (Ayton Publishing 2017 ISBN: 978-1910601419) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ootie dummmplin) tae the high heavens. An wi this praise aa the mai
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
plane at Aiberdein Airpot the heavens will open!(2016)

Mid Northern B

Dunnett, Nathan The Auld Asylum, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
nt it widna be lang afore the heavens opened. It wis the summer hol
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General Northern

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
from? He's fae Aiberdeen for Heavens Sake. Wasn't he the Cooncillo (2023) twitter link
ing doon Rosemount Place? For Heavens Sake! They could have had a d (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
set fit ootside the taxi the heavens begin tae open up. The rain s on page 176

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West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ome waffs, wee lassies. Thank heavens ah never wis wan.' on page 79
orld, the highest point o the heavens, the faurest-awa star. It wis on page 219

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Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
yin finger pointin’ tae the heavens, he announced, “An’ there
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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ngin their praise in the blue heavens abune, an the heat o the earl on page 67

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
...a great fire from the heavens, and after that a sword in th
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Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
’ a bit far ower. Thank the heavens for Oonagh is all I can say.
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Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
thon heavens gaze, on page 40

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East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
le cheeks an leukt up tae the heavens tae ptay fur mercy. What in t on page 14
She leukt up tae the heavens an bak tae the bodie as tears on page 33
"Guid Lord in the Heavens above!" on page 34

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