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The word 'heech'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heechOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.582
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) 618.4 7 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 heech in Corpus

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General Central

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
t for a stervin tod! Losh me! Heech awa! Hooch awa!' on page 40

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
The blae-white shanks heech-kickin, on page 15
Heech tae fa on page 20
Streetch heech their coasted oagliness. on page 38
Flees heech an heecher nixt the sun. on page 41
they'd jalooze weel enugh the heech wie he wuz leein yin inty the on page 49

5 matches

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
rin an froathin doon ower the heech roon stanes; cogged it bak a
owler, we shane mestered the heech airts o gainnlin, dullin an b
2 matches

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