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The word 'loass'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
loassOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.9198
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
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) 94.2 3 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 176.7 2 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 127.2 7 1

Occurrences of loass 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
s eih last straw, wer gaantae loass wer lyfe's," aye roart oot, e on page 10

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
the pain ah am feelin at the loass ae ma Justine. The maire ah d on page 78
ctory or another hert breakin loass. Me and the rest ae the boays on page 98

2 matches

West Central

Kirk Jn, Albert Wur Empire's Guid, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
We eat yer meat tae loass ye wecht
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
a lesson tae yae naw tae iver loass yer temper!" on page 31
ae feelt lik shae wus gan tae loass hir temper. on page 50
lt that thur wus nae time tae loass, baecaas shae wus shrinkin th on page 51

3 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Or 'Bliddy loass o time!' qu'she. on page 31
Tae loass itsel in the bothered watters on page 39

2 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
3. The loass o' the Meenesterial Adwisory on page 13

1 matches

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Dinnae loass thon memories, on page 28
Fur if A can loass weight sae can you!! on page 58

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
It's faur bettèr fer ye tae loass tha yin pairt o yer bodie ner on page 5
. Whaiver fins hïs life wull loass it, an whaiver loasses hïs l on page 9
wants tae save hïs life wull loass ït, an whaiver loasses hïs on page 85
tha coul shoother whaniver A loass ma jab!' Yin bi yin he caad à on page 97
r houls on tae hïs life wull loass ït, an whaiver gies up hïs on page 99

7 matches

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