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The word 'heir'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heirOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus15.45013
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 58.3 23 3
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 75.1 12 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 heir in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n, noo - young Walter'll faa heir te the hale jing bang. Fit's on page 75

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
er, 'Here's e loon, e Laird's heir. Come on, we'll dee awa wi hi on page 113

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
wis the son o the hoose, the heir tae Steenhillock an aathing i
An dool tae Migvree's heir
auld an deein, wi Matty, his heir jist a half-grown loon at Str
3 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
gang straucht while A can be heir til this deid man. on page 47

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
a shottie at follaein thaim. Heir ma taill o aunter an jeoparti
atterie seistem bot heir wir luk tirned. The fermer we
hae a sufficiand plece o haud heir,” sayed hiz sister an aff-t
nglish ceitezan, an A sattilt heir i Gaitsgill,
ist me. The Unyt Naitiouns is heir ti haud the pece,
21 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
That flesh is heir tae.........
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Nae gruppie heir can tak it back agane on page 216

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Nae gruppie heir can tak it back agane. on page 149

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
rlie on, she is jaelous o the heir an ettils ti hae him murthert on page 140

1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
Heir a ramasse o ma prattik. Tak w on page 10
Heir ither avantages. The mainner on page 11
it throu the buiks fur a wird heir an a say thare. on page 12
thocht at we suid inpit thaim heir. The wie atlas at we copied o on page 13
matie o the Scotch Perlament. Heir ma plene i the furm o :- " Th on page 25

8 matches

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
he, "this is the coy fur me. Heir yow, lathie," he cawed ti the on page 4

2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
semes the wrang wey roun, fur heir ye ar, wystin yeir tyme crakk on page 2

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
"Ye'l canna byde heir onie langer gif thur is whitl on page 45

1 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
An heir that bit tretis Ah wrate on v
1 matches

General Central

Foyle, Ghillie Lallans 58 - The Hildebrand Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
"Nou heir me, God abuin," yowts Hildebr on page 87

1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
King Jeems, wis the richtfae heir. His uphauders, kent as Jacob
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
heir-at-law an A’ve herd eet min
heir-at-law wis the praisent day l
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Scott, Hamish Eemis Stane 1 - Fields o Stanes, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
ou the Scots towmond an o wit heir'd an wan wi the sair fecht o on page 21

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
enow tae faither an heir, on page 86

1 matches

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