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Use in varieties of Scots

lied Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 6.2 0 9.9 17.4 0 0
Number of occurrences1612 0 1 3 0 0
Number of authors12 10 1 1

Occurrences of lied 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.

Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
A've hud ma hole. A've never lied aboot it. A pulled an elder b on page 6

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
ale truth tae the lad A wance lied tae; on page 6
, now wouldn't you rather A'd lied? on page 56

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
"Aye," Violet lied, "I think they're dead intere on page 85

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
cebook so everyone knows Isla lied aboot Sandra no stoppin hur m on page 78

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ons aboot weys tae forder the lied. Gin ye're a teacher wi exper
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
He lied untae us all!
1 matches

Lehane, Matt Mouse Eat Mouse World, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
lied ohne worte
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
V That's not true for me, she lied about something to try and en(2020) search twitter

@MizLiot tweeted
SICK o seeing my country get lied tae an then taen for a fool. (2021) twitter link
my country - Scotland - be lied tae by Westminster (2021) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ent. That fae a party wha hae lied tae the Queen, parliament, th(2021) search twitter

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
rats. Why, Maggie? Why? They lied at the trial, iverywan except on page 21

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
oor, wi da bucket a coarn spülied aboot her, whin shü didna co on page 5
fillin up again. Finally shü lied, on page 21
verything'll be fine,' Maggie lied, "Ah'll ... ah'll be back in on page 34

3 matches

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