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The word 'heth'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
hethOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8266
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 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
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 502.1 16 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 265 3 2
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of heth in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Heth he'll mak him a wark whin he on page 6
, "Shü means nae herm." Weel heth da day cam whin shü spakk st on page 14
er tune, fit in ta 'society'. Heth shüll notice an odds up yund on page 23

3 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
nk A'm quare an brev at hame! Heth, A wudnae say ocht aboot it o on page 9
An heth it wus: shae wus only ten inc on page 13
tet agin the roof o the haal: heth, shae wus noo mair nor nine f on page 17
had knowed thim aal hir life. Heth shae had a brev lang argiemen on page 25
cud yae larn lessons in here? Heth, thur's harly onie room fur y on page 36
Also on pages 38, 43, 45, 50, 53, 69, 94, 95, 97, 99, 102
16 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Ultach The Gra They Hae in Americae, (Reddit 2020) Ulster, poetry
‘s sicna tack nor gyely wid heth gar ye in yer grave.
1 matches

Ultach Whan Aw Wir Hauns are Turnt tae Banes, (Reddit 2020) Ulster, poetry
Whitiver ye hain will heth be gane
1 matches

Warwick, Matthew Tha Feardie Geng hae tae bide at hame, (Sensory Attachment Centre 2020) Ulster - Ballymena, weans
l bugs cannae thole saip ava, heth they rin awa frae saip.
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
faither had died in the war. Heth, I was lyin at the time." on page 4
"Heth, I know what I'm talkin aboot on page 16

2 matches

General Ulster

Ullans Speakers Association Nursery Rhymes for Weans, (Ulster-Scots Agency 2008 ISBN: 978-0955791697) Ulster, weans
"Heth I haenae oany!" on page 26

1 matches

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
“Heth yae'll naw ait the bried.
1 matches

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