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The word 'herrin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
herrinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.33112
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 19.5 8 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
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 herrin in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
teeclarli in connection wi da herrin industry, led tae multilingua on page 10

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
o fat herrin ta cure fur winter, on page 56
Sae mony men awa ta herrin driftin, on page 62
sherman waeled hit oot fae da herrin: on page 67
Here's a hansel o herrin fae da wastird, fat an foo o on page 70

4 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
in a crew, stappin a thoosan herrin inno ilkie barrel. Twa weemin
tit; the ither een pangit the herrin stappin them thegither bi siz
in the Nor-East coast fin the herrin fishin wis at its heicht. The
We're awa tae gut the herrin, we're awa tae Yarmouth toon.
e time ye've feenished guttin herrin on the Yarmouth quay.
7 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
e? Yer the marra o a scraggit herrin”
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Herrin in oatmeal canna fail fir me, on page 98
We gan i'gither like herrin an oatmeal on page 107

3 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
' day, an' bar the end o' the herrin' season whan ye're waashin' n on page 3
e bairns' tea. Mind, whan the herrin's on page 4
s in the summer time whan the herrin' are there, we dinnae see oor on page 23
it that the noise scared the herrin'. on page 33
sae fairt tae spik aboot the herrin', bit no whan the men are oot on page 34

6 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 63 - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
llad Conference, cam owre the Herrin Pond in 2002 tae wale a hunne
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
wisna a haddie or a whitin, a herrin or a mackerel an it wisna a c
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Some tatties, some herrin, on page 56

1 matches

Edinburgh

Purves, Jamie Lallans 102 - Aince, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
te, hail legions o nummerless herrin an ilka firth wis stappit wi on page 13

1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
gate, haudin a muckle pail o herrin. 'You didnae believe in God, on page 48

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Letters to the Editor - Sea-maws, (The Scotsman 2000) Central, newspaper
p the chance o a juicy caller herrin tae gaun aboot jaggin its neb on page 13

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
mean you can roast her like a herrin. I'm tellin ye richt noo ['m on page 130

1 matches

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