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The word 'loft'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
loftOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1139
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 loft 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

@FaeFoggie tweeted
Kint I hid at version up in i loft, its teen mi 7 hoors ti find (2019)

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Go tae clean oot the loft the day according tae the wif(2016)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
she'd promis tae hide in the loft till the weddin wis ower. The on page 86
"Please let Cinders oot the loft," pleaded the Angel. on page 87

2 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
nt. Wi sicna enorm fraucht on loft, aw set heich abune the cuddi on page 6

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
'Musty ... that's how the loft smells. You think you'll get on page 36

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
'Yon's the loft aboon ye, Grannie!' Geordie c on page 47
e room ablow, her heid in the loft. on page 48
ttie-bogle's got stuck in the loft, Geordie thocht. Thank guidne on page 50

3 matches

Clark, Thomas The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Tale o Three Dugs, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
t - bidin up in a clatty wee loft. His freens must aw hae lost on page 38

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
the fields, playin in the hey loft or traipsin efter the hen wif
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
, fae burn an dub tae lawn an loft, through saumples, treatment, on page 77

1 matches

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