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Use in varieties of Scots

high-heid-yins Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 2.1 0 0 0 0 8.9
Number of occurrences64 0 0 0 0 2
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of high-heid-yins in Corpus

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Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
The High-Heid-Yins at Barclays Bank.) on page 28

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
cry Scotland. The rulers and high-heid-yins o this new kinrick fur the ma
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
In the plural, ‘high-heid-yins’ micht whiles alloo itsel t
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
is weel-forrit and the leid o high-heid-yins, can be seen abuin aw in the
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Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
Donegore Hill for tae gie the high-heid-yins a begunk. (2015) twitter link
y! Thon wull no change if oor high-heid-yins dinnae aa clock in Lunnon the (2015) twitter link