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The word 'heidstane'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heidstaneOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81611
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 3
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) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 71.4 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 85.3 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of heidstane in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
footprints richt on tap o her heidstane. Come oan. I'Il show ye." on page 76

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
ow him a stairk white mairble heidstane - on page 88

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
tic extinction begins no wi a heidstane, but wi the end o the things
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Carvin the heidstane o diphtheria on page 51

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
e Reformation, the throuch or heidstane that we ken nooadays stertit on page 40
n the information gien on the heidstane - names, dates an the lave - on page 51

2 matches

Philip, George Lallans 56 - Scotsoun Thereanent, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ye hinna stuid forenenst thon heidstane (pit there an peyed for by Bu on page 46

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
er thur deid maist folk git a heidstane tae mark wur they lie. Some g
umnock graveyaird. The second heidstane is anither put up later an is
ly thur's oor Sandy's poshest heidstane, mair o a monument, put up a

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
A bucht grew ower, nae heidstane there, on page 21

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
r-hoose an John cairved a wee heidstane frae tha haggit brench o tha
efter he haed cairved anither heidstane frae tha wuid o tha thoarn tr
2 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Fur A've stud an lukkt at a heidstane, on page 17

1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
Heidstane in Comber Kirkyaird. John McK (2015) twitter link
#UlsterScots on a heidstane (no an aul yin). Movilla, New (2015) twitter link

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