A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'laef'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
laefOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.964
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 13.3 3 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 laef in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
u's ferfil caam. Anunder ivry laef anither. An than inside? Noor on page 160

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ok fur dat sam peerie rhuburb laef whin I took da dugs oot ower on page 8

1 matches

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
teen or dat, an shakkin lik a laef, so we got im i da galley as
1 matches

General Northern

TheChielMeister Nae mince in Moray, (youtube.com 2008) Doric, poetry
Plinty o' tatty, big green laef
Plinty o' tatty, big green laef
Plinty o' tatty, big green laef
3 matches

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