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The word 'let’s'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
let’sOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5165
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 31 7 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 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 let’s in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
sclims doon aa those stairs. Let’s ging fur a fly cup an funcy p(2019)

@FaeFoggie tweeted
pit a photie on yir page and let’s look at these. Heres mine een(2020)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
@AFCHereWeGo Let’s just say I’ve seen them give (2023) twitter link
n got wiped oot by Gallagher, let’s see how things pan oot (2022) twitter link
ceiling and soon I wid guess, let’s see fan they start losin (2022) twitter link
arket for, nae guarantees but let’s see fit the loon’s like afor (2021) twitter link
@JimSpenceDundee And let’s nae pretend that fitba is one (2020) twitter link
and 2 other occurrences.

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
pit a photie on yir page and let’s look at these. Heres mine een(2020)

General Central

@MartinBroon tweeted
ily??. M.C.G.A!! ??. ??????. (Let’s get this malarkey till the 18(2019)
C and Awe The 12th Men/wumen. Let’s get it done! ??. ????????????(2020)
Right @ClydeFC let’s see whit can be done.. Let’s(2020)
Tony same tae You and Yours. Let’s get this done Ma Man????. ???(2020)
@nickFTOF Let’s hope He kin stay fit??. ?????(2020)