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The word 'herdin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
herdinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9165
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 39.3 3 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 124.8 10 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 herdin in Corpus

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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
the gable-en o the cot-hous; herdin the beasts on the braes an ke on page 55
his young brither William wis herdin at Over Wellwood, an his sist on page 69
it for some o thae puir sowls herdin awa up in the hills. It minds on page 81

3 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 1 - Ye’re Still Here? It’s Ower. Gang Hame., (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
l o the thing wis! Better aff herdin wild baudrons as ettlin tae f on page 24

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
wad I be in ma ain countrie, herdin ma faither’s yowes” https:/(2020)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
wae o his sons wrocht the non-herdin pairt o the ferm wurk: plooin
eil wis the Craik ferm ootbye herdin, whilk stuid i the waitter sh
flittin doon tae the Meadshaw herdin, whaur hei wur fur ae gey whe
herd an his wife fur the Wolf herdin, the wife
his faimlie fallaed intil at herdin, an thay wur thar fur ae gey
10 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
wis mair douce than herdin stirks on page 62

1 matches

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