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The word 'heft'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
heftOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus39.313119
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 113.7 4 4
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of heft in Corpus

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Orkney

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
heft tae the meaneen.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
er teds an her dallies an her heft water bottle wi the elephant
1 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
bit I cwid feel the heft o that great ex, on page 36

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
t’s jist big eneuch for yin heft,” sayed
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
e gray hairs yet stack to the heft;
gray hairs yet stack tae the heft;
2 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 59 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Pit bings heft scarred finger stumps, on page 129

1 matches

Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
pecific, bane-deep words, the heft and the lilt that A had ca’
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
pheesically strang eneuch tae heft a pike, he had the job o shui
1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Abuin the gizzen wrack, heft house-heid hie on page 39

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
m as weill as an intellectual heft they’ve been missin. Wi the
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
t wechty tae tha tap an, wi a heft, John haul’d Grace oot o th
1 matches

General Ulster

Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
” sez Conor, whan thai haed heft beinlie intae tha caur.
1 matches

Depairtment fur Commonities Hargey announces heidwie oan plens fer Airish an’ Ulster-Scots, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ng forrit recommendations tae heft wi’ infoarmin the plens.
1 matches

@OrangRuth tweeted
class dolly bird only had my heft.(2019)

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
eration of young fowk giein a heft tae the auld words! https://t(2020)

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