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The word 'haverin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
haverinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.42818
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 42.7 4 1
LAL - General Central 14.4 11 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 3
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 65.6 1 1
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 haverin in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
He's a haverin on page 120

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
tae her, shit's aafil low, an haverin, tinks du's dere already. Ah' on page 35

1 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
but this haverin bugger
1 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
baar wi aat: somethin about a haverin aiver, ye ken.' on page 39
"I ken at they're jist haverin," Ailice thocht tae hersel, " on page 58

2 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
fit sic a shite Ye Spikkin Ye haverin' hoor?(2015)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
Who is aye haverin aboot his youth,
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
anent the "old Scots" he wis haverin on aboot (1100 - 1700) an th
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
"Wi haverin tae?" Secunda fleecht, on page 5
t tae dover ower, and gaed on haverin awa tae hersel in a haufdwam, on page 10
Och, ye daft eejit, ye're haverin!" on page 16
"Awa, ye're haverin!" said Alison in a loud vyce. on page 44

4 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
t flegs them!.,. But ach, I'm haverin! Wi aw this haverin tae masel on page 134

4 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 102 - Editorial: Jean Tamson’s Bairns, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
learie lantern... but eneuch haverin: for thir past puckle o weeks on page 7

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
"Whit are ye haverin aboot?" Klaus cried. "He took on page 88
"Whit are ye haverin aboot? We aw watched ye!" Coo on page 150

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
haverin a load o keech on page 71
haverin a load ay keech, sae ye wur on page 81

2 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 73 - Red on Maroon, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
haverin o fit thay divna ken; on page 111

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
er @BBCScotlandNews WTH ur ye haverin aboot?! Wid ye rether folk wu(2020)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
Jings, Ah'm fair haverin here!" on page 16

1 matches

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
An here yer editor haverin on aboot this at sicna lenth, on page 5

1 matches

The Westender Ins and oots, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
Bit a'm haverin'. A was oan aboot folk movin
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Yir haverin noo. on page 98

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
Sic a screed o waeful haverin, Heids a birlin, on page 59

1 matches

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