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The word 'losses'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lossesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.61511
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
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 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of losses in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
eat stuff beuy ?? Nothing but losses up this way the day, bonny bu(2020)

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
o you haes a hunder sheep an losses wan o dem, whit wid you do? Y on page 121

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
t ov coarse maid wer day, Nay losses. Noo we wurket thi spray fur on page 19

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
life will loss it an faaivver losses their life will kep it. Lat m on page 110

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Economic Theory, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
aks the gate she pynts, but A losses ma nerves whan A keeks throu
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
likes o "bus stop" an aa, an losses a distinction weel uphauden i
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
i a wee o dule aboot it. John losses his first wife an efter, gaes on page 141

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Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
ies - they'r naitional yins, losses no juist tae oor freends an o
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ss cuid hae tholed the tragic losses she had suffered. She wis a f on page 66

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
thing aboot ma Da is that he losses the heid, but then he calms d on page 38

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
t life that whenever somebody losses a luved yin, their freends wi on page 34

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
been awa frae the leid - its losses o functions an o spickers. Th on page 56

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
e coinage (aften tae meet the losses o weir wi Englan, bit as the
1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
air ootnummers sic unlamentit losses as the auld for and for . The
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
wud he accept that mony o the losses in Glesca wur doon tae his ai

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