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The word 'hei'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heiOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus78.82636
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
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
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 3161.1 261 4
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 hei in Corpus

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Shetland

Williamson, Christie Böd, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2012) Shetland, poetry
da drier oot o hei,
1 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
Endlich wird die heiße Stirne kühl! on page 10

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
an a muckle fan in th ither: hei came trottin alang in a muckl on page 17
"How cheerfilly hei seems tae grin, on page 18
angs tae a fermer, ee ken, an hei says eet's sae yisfi, eet's w on page 22
That hei met in th hoose, on page 29
"Hei took iz fur eis hoosemaid," s on page 33
Also on pages 54, 56, 59, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 77, 81, 84, 85, 86, 89, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 100, 101, 102, 103, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121
101 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
an A’m juist gey shuire at hei wud bei maist approachable, g
pe kinnilt, thar’s nocht at hei likes better, than ae guid au
history an Border kulter, an hei isna blate tae express himsel
an A masel, wis born. Athough hei wis tee-tottal himsel, his fa
e-upo-Tyne, Brewery Business. Hei hed ae Rolls-Royce car an gin
147 matches

The Westender Pipin for the Young Yins, (The Hawick Paper 2008) Southern, newspaper
Short. What a prood statesman hei was. A fair likeet him. Hei t
was. A fair likeet him. Hei took pipers a' ower the world
ook pipers a' ower the world, hei did. There was the Legion Ban
3 matches

The Westender Loupin Salmon, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
cos the witter was that low. Hei said that wasnae guid for fis
d slip. The fish got away and hei slid on his hint end a' the r
e white witter at the bottom. Hei was drookit, bit otherwise un
fish and was fair excited es hei came back tae the bankin', on
4 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
as late wi ma delivery today. Hei said sorry am late. “Yir par(2018)
ery driver the amount of time hei is here..#100parcelsaweek(2020)
t aswell blame the ref aswell hei is fuckin useless aswell? #ru(2012)
ni want him falling off again.hei is getting ower gid at that #(2012)

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