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The word 'heron'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heronOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4135
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 20.3 8 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 1
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 heron in Corpus

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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

Mid Northern A

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

(South) East Central

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

General 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

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