A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

heron Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 5.7 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1311 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors5 3 1 1

Occurrences of heron in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James Black Cuddy, (Scottish Book Trust 2019) Central, prose
tae the loch and see whit the heron is sayin. on page 2
Whit did the heron say? on page 4

2 matches

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
come back, and Lang Sandy the heron fishin tae, and deuks amang t on page 17

1 matches

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
The Wolf and the Heron on page 31

6 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
t belongs tae a charity. Wild Heron. They run trips oan it. Noo, on page 1

2 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ower the watter like a craggy heron.
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Bonny Isle o Sanday, (Brisk Northerly 2016) Orkney, blog
shank wade in 20mm o brine. A heron awaits the flood. The tide re
1 matches

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