A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lenses'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lensesOccurrences 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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 lenses in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
hid a look at her een wi his lenses for the job.
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
oot the scratches in the auld lenses,
or mebbe gie him new lenses intae the auld frames.
id. "I will give you stronger lenses, and Jonsar I can
new lenses intae his auld frames bit, th
4 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
es and sterted tae polish the lenses wi a hankie The bairns stayed on page 68

1 matches

Dundee

McKenzie, Roddy Cataracts, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2018) Central - Dundee, prose
wind thersels up. Yi ken thit lenses, arnae megic een. Thae fowk d
weel. Thers a limit tae whit lenses kin dae. Mind yi, tell them t
2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
h sais: A wee gawky cunt, the lenses ay his NHS frames steamed up
1 matches

General Central

Ewen, Allan The Blin Man an the Man Wha Couldna See, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ae his jaiket an polished the lenses wi the fingernebs o his gluiv
1 matches

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