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The word 'hermes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hermesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.274
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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 6.6 5 3
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 hermes in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 60 - Da Odyssey (1-75), (Lallans Magazine 2002) Shetland, poetry
Aforehand, wi Hermes, da glig-eed giant-killer,
Sae Hermes sed; bit Aigisthus never anti
2 matches

General Central

Philip, Andrew Lallans 70 - Fower Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes. on page 55

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
e wis equate wi the Greek god Hermes - the messenger o the ither
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
fastest rinner on Earth. Even Hermes – the postie o Moont Olympu
“That lassie,” said Hermes, peched oot efter ettlin tae
2 matches

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