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The word 'heevens'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heevensOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8164
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 75.6 13 3
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 3.9 3 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of heevens in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
ta come spricklin doon fae da heevens! Gadge! Snake!" on page 53
de da door, gaanin up inta da heevens laek someen witless. on page 57
He wis lookin awa up inta da heevens aa da time at he wis spaekin, on page 58

3 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
ery start da Göd Man med the heevens an da aert. Da aert hed nae s on page 3
be nicht.' So he set dem i da heevens - day an nicht, licht an mir on page 4
Lat da heevens sing; lat da aert lipper ower on page 42
ld an dön ~an start ower. Da heevens an da aert ll be lik a new pl on page 63

5 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
Seeven heevens o a Hoy moarnin on page 27
rk is a flummox; he's read da heevens. on page 28

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Gaet-markers, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, poetry
Polaris, preened tae da heevens,
1 matches

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
An dan, oh my heevens, da cry goes up, an I hears d
1 matches

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
r her an nivver tell me? Göd heevens, hit says her name is Mitten!
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
As the brichtest body in the heevens alang wi the Moon it is cryed
hem for starns, stellt in the heevens, but as thay chenged poseetio
2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
s a fiery stane fawin fae the heevens, but for a lang time? Whiteve
1 matches

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