A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'higgie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
higgieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6201
ORK - Orkney 198.7 20 1
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
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)
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 higgie in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Higgie the Codd at her screens on page 15
Thir aalder noo, an only Higgie bade tae be on page 16
lang an weel-kent sermon. An Higgie's soprano cracks the sam nott on page 33
Higgie the Codd clocks aff on page 45
Higgie the Codd seeks expert advice on page 56
Also on pages 58, 95, 96, 97, 98, 126, 135, 152, 154, 161
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