Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'heidy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

heidy	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.7	19	9
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	111.9	1	1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	35.5	8	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central	17.8	4	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	18.6	3	2
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)	35.7	1	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of heidy in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

Harvey, Lewis Crash, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ons, the teachers, as for the heidy well dinna start me. There’
1 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - A hame is a hame is a hame, is it nae?, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
fae raves, heidy wikkends, buggy flares, on page 34

1 matches

Innes, Brian P. Tales Fae The Doric Side - Thochts o a Teacher, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
eel telt that the Dominie, or Heidy wis a stickler for aa the tea on page 49
at me gettin a ragin fae the Heidy for bein late? on page 50
Jist as the Heidy wis leavin, haudin his hunkie on page 51

7 matches

(South) East Central

Matthews, Andrew Lallans 104 - Skiddlie Thochts, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
e peruisin the gleg clerkin o heidy critics an wirdy acadeemics. on page 81

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
then we took it doon tae the heidy. on page 88
thought it wis gaunnae be the heidy that wis takin it but instead on page 98
uite hard especially when oor heidy startet talkin aboot how Lesl on page 127
cidet no tae refer me tae the heidy. Instead, because he likes me on page 169

4 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
He brewed a heidy mixture, o’ flare an’ ski
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
r thocht on as bein the maist heidy o the bease. Maist weel-forri
clean greement, and the mair heidy anes begoud strecht tae learn
2 matches

General Central

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
Religion an politics is aye a heidy mix. Okay this declaration wi

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

King, Angeline Yarns 3 - Bluebells o Sallagh, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ards, poetry
heidy as a hyacinth-scribed,
1 matches