A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

herdin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 3.1 0 0 0 103.4 0
Number of occurrences166 0 0 0 10 0
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of herdin in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
the gable-en o the cot-hous; herdin the beasts on the braes an ke on page 55
his young brither William wis herdin at Over Wellwood, an his sist on page 69
it for some o thae puir sowls herdin awa up in the hills. It minds on page 81

3 matches

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 1 - Ye’re Still Here? It’s Ower. Gang Hame., (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
l o the thing wis! Better aff herdin wild baudrons as ettlin tae f on page 24

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
wis mair douce than herdin stirks on page 62

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
wad I be in ma ain countrie, herdin ma faither’s yowes” https:/(2020) search twitter

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
wae o his sons wrocht the non-herdin pairt o the ferm wurk: plooin
eil wis the Craik ferm ootbye herdin, whilk stuid i the waitter sh
flittin doon tae the Meadshaw herdin, whaur hei wur fur ae gey whe
herd an his wife fur the Wolf herdin, the wife
his faimlie fallaed intil at herdin, an thay wur thar fur ae gey
10 matches

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