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The word 'herbs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
herbsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.41411
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 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 herbs in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
nny kent a thing or two aboot herbs and potions and plants. She k on page 22

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
nny kent a thing or two aboot herbs an potions an plants. She ken on page 76

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
s o mint an rue an aa sic lik herbs bit ye dinna care a docken fo on page 101

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
led the rice an gaithered the herbs an spices an veg fur a richt
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
raised beds o fit lookit like herbs: anither thing Beannie wiz fa
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
sassage meat, breadcrumbs and herbs in i ither end. Nae sure fit (2019)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
It's got funcy herbs int on page 122

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
it that it was packit roun wi herbs tae keep doun the on page 93

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
ade o dreams' dust. It's jist herbs o the shadowy bank, ye see, a on page ix

1 matches

General Central

Cairns, Pauline Lallans 83 - Boeuf Bourguignon, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
Pit the bacon, ingan, an herbs (exceptin for the parsley) ba on page 69

2 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
by, Bridie kent aboot hailsum herbs, salves an oiles, an she culd on page 11
e the mercat wi a creel fou o herbs an seed baggies. Ah creipit i on page 14

2 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - fower poems bi John Waddell, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Garnished wi herbs fae field an hedge, on page 62

1 matches

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