A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'heer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6216
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 45.8 14 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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)
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 heer 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.

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
yle en thi baakgroon yea cood heer, bleepin an buzzing, cummen f on page 5
een?"' A ask's em "Did ye nay heer thi thump fin thi boatie keel on page 17
d, "Weel wee'v bin rippen oot heer aa mornen et baith syde's o y on page 19
*"Yaahoo, Glaisgae heer we go!!" a thocht tae masel F on page 39
t playen, an aye jist luv tae heer eth pype's, so en marches eis on page 40
Also on pages 46, 49, 59, 61, 69
14 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
unstnerforbundet' an 'Galleri Heer'. on page 15

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
beans luv it lol - but a did heer sum interestin rumours why yo (2020) twitter link
st lothian - aye ees herd it heer 1st lol (2021) twitter link

West Central

Calderwood, Lynsey Lallans 68 - Barlinnie Gradyooits, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
treet iys cream shop. It says heer, said Avon, That wen thi shop on page 41

1 matches

General Central

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
@raiphsays Sno rainin heer- yit. Mibby ah’ll wait tae p(2020)

@raiphsays tweeted
@GREIGEXVS1300A Aw Misty heer tae! A luv it!(2020)
acKScot It tryin tae be sunny heer!(2020)