A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'laas'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
laasOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7124
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 84.3 6 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of laas in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ivin kine o fowk, abidin bi e laas an ordinances o e Temple wi' on page 79
were ower, as laid doon bi e laas o Moses, they teuk e bairnie on page 82
aathin vritten aboot me in e laas o Moses, an in e Prophits an on page 121

4 matches

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
tch in Claught Kïngrick (CK) laas bes: "... tha kine o tha Scot on page 11
-guidin furtae foond roadins, laas an richt gates. Thae ettlins on page 14
s gart throch it bae warlwide laas. on page 16

4 matches

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ae identified an' the needfu' laas passed in a quaak tim' frame. on page 25
Fryske Akademy bes, es hit's laas pit hit, The apkeep o' societ on page 31

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
fer why dae you lea aside tha laas o God fer tha sake o yer ain on page 9
cht, keepin aa tha commans an laas o tha Loard. But the' haed na on page 69

2 matches

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