A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lyttle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lyttleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.653
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
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)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of lyttle in Corpus

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Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
An Lyttle spun his cantie yairns o on page 2
Daft Eddie's Cave wus in W G Lyttle's buik, Daft Eddie or The Smu on page 29

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General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
ots blethers inaboot (by W.G. Lyttle fae Newtownards). https://t.c (2016) twitter link
Lug in tae this. W.J. Lyttle's books aye have a quare lot (2020) twitter link

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
@scotlit Hi all - here is WG Lyttle’s stout defence of the genre(2020)