A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

heft Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words39.3 3.5 4.4 9.9 0 0 24.2
Number of occurrences1317 3 1 0 0 5
Number of authors19 6 3 1 5

Occurrences of heft in Corpus

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Central

Hardie, George Lallans 59 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Pit bings heft scarred finger stumps, on page 129

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Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Abuin the gizzen wrack, heft house-heid hie on page 39

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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
e gray hairs yet stack to the heft;
gray hairs yet stack tae the heft;
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Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
pecific, bane-deep words, the heft and the lilt that A had ca’
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
pheesically strang eneuch tae heft a pike, he had the job o shui
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
m as weill as an intellectual heft they’ve been missin. Wi the
1 matches

Doric

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
bit I cwid feel the heft o that great ex, on page 36

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McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
t’s jist big eneuch for yin heft,” sayed
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Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
er teds an her dallies an her heft water bottle wi the elephant
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Orkney

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
heft tae the meaneen.
1 matches

Ulster

Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
” sez Conor, whan thai haed heft beinlie intae tha caur.
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Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
t wechty tae tha tap an, wi a heft, John haul’d Grace oot o th
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Depairtment fur Commonities Hargey announces heidwie oan plens fer Airish an’ Ulster-Scots, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ng forrit recommendations tae heft wi’ infoarmin the plens.
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@OrangRuth tweeted
class dolly bird only had my heft.(2019) search twitter

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
eration of young fowk giein a heft tae the auld words! https://t(2020) search twitter

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