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The word 'lego'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
legoOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.91910
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.7 11 3
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of lego in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ood o dem sorted oot a roog o Lego. Aside dem lay a kinda fat el
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
oses thegither like a bairn's lego. Here, a rowth o faitherless
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
n it opens. #doric #aberdeen #LEGO https://t.co/MFOiIuRdVy(2019)

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs The ‘Naked Cleaners’ idea is appalling. It’s sexist, demeaning, and at £80 an hour, steep, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
tered o’er a jagged pile of Lego in my lobby, or got their foo
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
is the dreary lookin violated Lego sets the government pit up ta on page 90

1 matches

Glasgow

Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
Ma hoose seemed like lego. When I got hame, there were
a be changed. But it wis like lego. If it wisna lookin right, yo
2 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
ess tae enjoying knocking the Lego intae shape Freckles... :) I (2022) twitter link
ae ye Jan.. :) Been doing the Lego build, that's it done for the (2022) twitter link
rlier, they're now building a lego structure.. Think it's a gara (2022) twitter link
:) I'm gonna bash oan wi' ma Lego build.. And wish ye aw' a gui (2023) twitter link
scope done.. :) Enjoying this Lego gig.. :) I'm away tae assist (2022) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.

@gordimhor1 tweeted
ruth_wishart I widnae build a lego house to a design by that man(2020)

@jax6754 tweeted
....An yir bairn will get yir lego.....just no fir the next coup(2015)
the best! Think I forsee more LEGO time acoming fir you? ?X(2015)
e anytime fir PS thingyies or Lego then! Hee hee!?? XXX(2015)
is! But whit happened tae yir Lego CR??? X(2015)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark Address to a Nintendo DS, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster - Ards, poetry
Lego Star Wars an’ then Super Ma
1 matches

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