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The word 'heivin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heivinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5159
ORK - Orkney
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 10.3 4 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 heivin in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
dered, nochtie sangstress, aa heivin brieists an bustle, her dyed
1 matches

(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
u o sair banes! He's cum frae Heivin, atweill? (Fair hoatchin) Wi on page 48

3 matches

Matthews, Andrew Lallans 104 - Skiddlie Thochts, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
this airth aw will be weel in heivin, gin iver they got thare. Mic on page 81

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Torquatus, gif the gods in heivin suid steik on page 216

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Torquatus, gif the gods in heivin suid steik on page 149

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
e laund, the trees are tichin heivin; Oan the watter vieve, ah cad on page 30

1 matches

Ayrshire

Wilson, Rab Lallans 76 - Napoleon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
aimin fir hissel some pairt o Heivin,
1 matches

General Central

Philip, Andrew Lallans 70 - Fower Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
, a sun and a sternfu, silent heivin gaed, a yammer-heivin wi dist on page 55

2 matches

Swan, Michael Lallans 102 - Mebbi Ah Spak Owre Suin, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
pearls wantin, an the flair o heivin sairly needit sweepit. on page 96

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
(Fae The Merriage o Heivin an Hell bi William Blake) on page 78
A muckler thing than Heivin and Hell on page 79

2 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
an the yetts o Heivin ir nearer nou
1 matches

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