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The word 'flegs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
flegsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1106
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
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) 13.9 1 1
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of flegs in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Thom, Bill The Quait Chiel, (Tapsalteerie 2013 ISBN: 9780992663100) Doric - Banff, poetry
mpin oot on fowk tae gee them flegs. on page 13

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
idderin ooto neuks tae gie ye flegs, sae she waukit on till she f
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
tae ken tho, whit is it maist flegs folk aw said? A on page 133
r ain, that's jist whit maist flegs them!.,. But ach, I'm haverin on page 134

2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
flegs an pookin o't, neb stappit wi on page 60

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Nae flegs aboot. on page 5
Nae mettér flegs nor anthems prood. on page 73

2 matches

General Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
Shoes72 Yeeoooooooo.! Me love flegs. I’m away doon to Suns of Ul(2020)
@JamieBrysonCPNI More FLEGS Naiiiiiii(2019)