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The word 'high-heid-yins'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
high-heid-yinsOccurrences 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 5.3 4 2
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 28.1 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of high-heid-yins in Corpus

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General Central

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
The High-Heid-Yins at Barclays Bank.) on page 28

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
cry Scotland. The rulers and high-heid-yins o this new kinrick fur the ma
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
In the plural, ‘high-heid-yins’ micht whiles alloo itsel t
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
is weel-forrit and the leid o high-heid-yins, can be seen abuin aw in the
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
Donegore Hill for tae gie the high-heid-yins a begunk. (2015) twitter link
y! Thon wull no change if oor high-heid-yins dinnae aa clock in Lunnon the (2015) twitter link