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The word 'heaps'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heapsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91310
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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)
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 heaps in Corpus

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Shetland

Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
re colled inta peerie roonded heaps o hay, with a tapered top an
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Inside a cattle float they'd heaps O tatties, carrots, yalla nee on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
zing...nae like you - you've heaps o pals." on page 84

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Heaps o differint things te full Fi on page 34

1 matches

McArthur, Kaydi Rich n Peer, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
Heaps o folk hated his guts bit ith
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
resources fer remote lairnin, heaps o stories an plays in Scots o (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2022) Doric - Aberdeen
Heaps in the toon, ower mony tae co

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
Heaps in the toon, ower mony tae co
1 matches

General Northern

Noble, Brian , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
As for portion size mak it heaps
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@daleser23 tweeted
ttrick aye just listening tae heaps. #goodtimes(2013)

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ckle baun o fowk, an, fae the heaps o wapponry lyin at the door,
1 matches

General Central

Adamson, Donald Lallans 90 - The Myndin o Lockerbie, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
r tummlt waas, made nocht but heaps o stane on page 37

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
r tummlt waas, made nocht but heaps o stane on page 26

1 matches

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