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The word 'herst'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
herstOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.862
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 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 4.4 1 1
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 herst in Corpus

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Orkney

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Herst is cheust aroond the corner n
kk o 'ears ago I wundered if "herst" wis the sæm is the Norwegia
I kinda dismissed id bekiss "herst" an "harvest" ær middleen li
oo A'm funnd that "harvest", "herst", "haust/høst", an German "h
kan aboot autumn when we say "herst", or ær we spaekan aboot har

General Northern

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 58 - The Bothy Loon, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
the sun glintin on the bonnie herst fields. on page 124

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