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The word 'herds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
herdsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91910
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 99.8 8 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 herds in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
fur da kye, it's eddir graet herds a dairy or beef kye, or nane on page 62

1 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Græt waandrin herds, hærsts, a prood wyf. on page 21

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
hrick fullt frae their growin herds o kye, an selt it aa roon the
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
doun the glen, garrin aa the herds o beasts flee flichtit afore
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e arrive and wi the rains the herds o wildebeest and zebra seekin
1 matches

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
herds aff the Burns Laird boat swir on page 143

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
erent kind come plunderin oor herds, on page 40
bruit, as happens wi bulls in herds aftimes. on page 121

2 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 67 - In Search o Robert Henrysoun, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
swallows and Tod Lapraik and herds as weel, on page 123

1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
er. Hae ye no seen his ‘Twa Herds’ - aboot the tulzie atween
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ly is the Back Waitter) is ae herds biggin cad Howpasley Combe, w
flitted tae Mulsintoun ootbye herds hoose, Whaupshaw, frae the Ho
s ae callant, at the praisent herds hoose it the
herds resident i baith hirsels: an
r, whae leukit weel efter his herds. Tae the best o ma
8 matches

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