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The word 'heid-yin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heid-yinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
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) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of heid-yin in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
So if ye want to be the high heid-yin, on page 10

1 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
eill as Americkie’s new Hie Heid-yin) wad like David C. Purdie’s
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
ishis an wes traitit as a hie-heid-yin. Shae wes alse a dentie ying on page 4

1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
The Emperor cawed the high-heid-yin o his ministers, the High Pan on page 96

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
h for an 'Eeksi-Peeksie Skame Heid-Yin' i.e. equality schemes manage on page 56

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
o Scotland” and the “high-heid-yin in chief”.
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
North Korea's high-heid-yin's daein fine, on page 39

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
in 1605. O'Neill was the high-heid-yin o the Clandeboye O'Neills wha
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
fae Amerikay elect their high-heid-yin? (2016) twitter link
High-heid-yin Cameron gaithers the neist To (2015) twitter link