A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lend'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lendOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.42417
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.7 7 5
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 18.2 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of lend in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I ask fur a lend o her broomstick on page 53

1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia The birds an the bees, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
doptin an injured beastie tae lend a haund, tho. Gaun back tae t
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
A winna lend ma pownie mair,
A wadna lend ma pownie mair,
2 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
w, just for today, mind, I'll lend you a moose."
Come, gaither roon. Lend me yer lugs.
2 matches

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
e antrin wynds o freedom that lend itsel tae us an tak us yonder
1 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
vulpis) it’s cheynged days: lend a lug tae this:
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
go on strike n al pop along n lend ma support as its an essentia (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The favours she wis keen tae lend, Proved Currie's faur too hot on page 47
idit waster, or gettin taen a lend o. on page 110

2 matches

Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
allaghan wis forced tae tak a lend frae frae the IMF, wha demaun
1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
aur assonance an alliteration lend tae the lilt. Ruth is a couth on page viii

1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
ey buy ye foriver, they niver lend on page 23
The wifie buys so Sharkies lend, on page 121

3 matches

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
. Mibbe wannae yir pals could lend me a slug gun. That’d get t
1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
it souns cleir eneuch when ye lend a lug: 'Aunty Mag says tae me on page 54

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
The lion shuid lend a lug tae the tod. on page 82

1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
feart that Ingland wad tak a lend o Scotland, oot vote her, wec
1 matches

@ThonJacobite tweeted
teacher I had tae regularly 'lend' weans money tae buy their lu(2020)

South East (Borders)

The Westender Mairchers did oor toon prood, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
some stood on the streets tae lend their support.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
lk droothie, claggit, mingin, lend a lug on page 77

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark Address to a Nintendo DS, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster - Ards, poetry
Charlie’ll no gie ye a lend-o
1 matches

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