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The word 'heathen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heathenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.895
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 heathen in Corpus

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Shetland

Nicholson, Hannah Samhain - Usher in the Dark - Minni-Babbi, (Leopard Arts 2021) Shetland, prose
e dem, I wis juist a witch, a heathen, someen at dey pat up wi but
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
a fowk, a lamp tae licht up e heathen an fess glory tae yer fowk Is on page 82
yersel. Cause iss is fit aa e heathen rin efter, bit yer Fadder ken on page 102
'll get his comeuppance amo e heathen. on page 103
"E Keengs o e heathen hiv pooer ower their fowk an on page 117

4 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
tions, they'd the whiff o the Heathen aboot them, he said. Fur aa t
1 matches

Glasgow

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
id buttons up the back? Yer a heathen. The last time ye set fit in
1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Exiled - a prisoner in this heathen laund. on page 35

2 matches

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