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The word 'liftet'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
liftetOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.3175
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 36.8 8 2
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) 125.5 4 1
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 liftet in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
ght herder dan aabody else - liftet mair weights, done mair sprin
il i da terminal, whin someen liftet da kep fae me haed an toosled
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
lyen on eih grun, noo, fin a liftet ma heed, Nabbie an Danny weis on page 32
hdae's hid caim eit eense. We liftet thi barrel an startet pooren on page 33
i hatche's. Ivertyme thi deck liftet water splooshed en throo thi on page 49

3 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
. Charlene an Kelly Marie got liftet by the polis last night fur u on page 44
's fingers wan time cause she liftet her R.FC. ring oot the PE. va on page 107
ne on ma airm last night. She liftet her T-shir, an showed us this on page 154
ou in on a wee secret, an she liftet her favourite cup wi the Frie on page 169

7 matches

Alston, Connor THE BLACK-EYED CHILDREN OF SCOTLAND, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
Carol ran fur the phone. She liftet it . . .The power went oot. T
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
Alice liftet the fan an gloves, an baecaas on page 19
realizin what shae done, shae liftet a wee bit o stick, an hoult i on page 41
other whin hae spoke, an thin liftet himsel up ontae haes tiptoes, on page 82
The Gryphon liftet up baith its paas in shock. " on page 95

4 matches

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