A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'high-heid-yin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
high-heid-yinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.863
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
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of high-heid-yin in Corpus

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General Central

Douglas, Ashley The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Sweet Sang o the Widd, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
The Emperor cawed the high-heid-yin o his ministers, the High Pan on page 96

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
ster o Scotland” and the “high-heid-yin in chief”.
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
North Korea's high-heid-yin's daein fine, on page 39

1 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
stle in 1605. O'Neill was the high-heid-yin o the Clandeboye O'Neills wha
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
folk fae Amerikay elect their high-heid-yin? (2016) twitter link
High-heid-yin Cameron gaithers the neist To (2015) twitter link