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The word 'heared'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hearedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2143
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 394 12 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of heared in Corpus

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General Central

MacMinto, Gregor The Magic Brainch, (wordpress 2021) Central, blog
as muckle.’ The cley davie heared their confabble like it wis i
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
n hoo yir daein, fur A hinnae heared ocht aboot ye this ages. Aa y on page 26

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
Naw, I suppose ye wudnae hae heared o Esther Gibson. Did Tam Gour on page 3
cairts at his age an then...I heared aboot ye, ye know." Hir heid on page 7
r traiks. "Oh Danny boy," she heared, as a heid roonded the corner on page 11
ir dauchter an winked. "Fur I heared there was a bit o epple tairt on page 17
"? whuspert Sally. Daniel had heared the questin. He muived his he on page 22
Also on pages 33, 36, 43, 53, 54, 56
11 matches

King, Angeline Weans o Latharna, (angelineking.com 2021) Ulster - Larne, weans
Nooadays the craws can tae be heared squealin in pain as they circ
1 matches

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