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The word 'leed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
leedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82512
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 42.5 13 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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) 88.3 1 1
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) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of leed in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
r, fyle we weis ensyde melten leed fur wer ripper's, so's nay ta on page 9
lee a manayged tae get ma big leed en ower thi gunnul, an aat mi on page 11
seeve, '"Naythen eit a pukkul leed patches widna ceoor," say's B on page 13

9 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
!" said Norman. "Ere's plinty leed in my pincil...it jist needs on page 47
" Ah fun ma face reeden as Ah leed. It wis a Sunday aifterneen - on page 63

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
wheeched frae unner him. She leed a bittie, sayin that the hoos
ives. He thocht quick an syne leed.
2 matches

Aberdeen

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 63 - Shelts, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Doric, prose
fore him. “Now dear,” she leed, “We’re going to play a l
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
“Ah kent that,” she leed. “Jist waanted a race. You
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
cey @bluenosetaylor1 av got a leed n heel b aff it if the polis (2020) twitter link
me lol - as for the guvs - leed eer ain life thats whit a say (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
arly shown films o sic testes leed tae Pairliament. Dae ye want on page 56
mair we ken o hou we hae been leed tae, the mair we will insist on page 62

2 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
believin yer ain leed on page 7

1 matches

General Central

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
ae withoot anither word. He'd leed aboot his age at the Feein Fa on page 17

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
Celsius) – eneuch tae melt leed – but at nicht, wi nae atmo
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
'James Kirko, martyr, got a leed baw on page 28

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
wies they'd trevel yince they leed, on page 26

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
a hale lock o ithers, an the' leed thaim doon at his feet; an he on page 9

1 matches

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