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The word 'laik'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
laikOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus19638
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 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
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 1308 8 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 188.3 6 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 356.9 10 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 599.6 33 1

Occurrences of laik in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
m yir aboot tae yeus. Hid’s laik verteego. Sumtaims hid kin fr
ks teu fetishaisan langwachis laik Orcadian as ai beud in a tain
2 matches

General Northern

TheChielMeister Oatcakes 'n' Cheese, (youtube.com 2009) Doric, poetry
If ye dinna laik yon ye're heid tha ba'
If ye dinna laik yon ye're heid tha ba'
If ye dinna laik yon ye're heid tha ba'
3 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
at cam oot thir talks wes the laik o knawledge aboot the leid an on page 121

1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
An' th' men still tak' laik men. on page 16
wiz a big salmon, bowl as yae laik', on page 25
An' not go daein' think laik that on page 27
An' that's whit A laik tae hear, on page 28
Aye sure Ah' laik the wuntertim' on page 47

8 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
, but he skited ower the grun laik a ballet dancer with defender on page 32
en he was in his pomp. I feel laik yin o they defenders he made on page 33
n a big boady wi airms on him laik legs and fists on page 44
yin thing Sam Mary Anne would laik aboot the day is ether the Ma on page 45

6 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Gibson, Darren Cannae Thole Ye!, (lowcountrylad.blogspot.com/ 2014) Ulster - Ards, blog
oo ir ye daein? This week A'd laik tae taak tae ye aboot yin oâ€
ans tae endure oor suffer bit laik aa guid Ulster-Scots wurds it
2 matches

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
licht tha fire oan a guid day laik thon. Gin ye cud tak doon tho
t wi a shrivelt mooth an skin laik pairchment. Her een wus glimm
rflees, burds’ nests an tha laik — tae tha oul wumman wha su
udden boxes. Tae John, it wus laik the wuid she haed was saft an
a perfec epple. Tha epple wus laik tae growein frae tha wud, it
8 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
tha Spïrit o God cumin doon laik a doo an lichtin on him. An a on page 3
An whan yis pray, dïnnae be laik tha hippycrates, fer the' lov on page 6
snake? An sae ïf sïnfu fowk laik yersels know hoo tae gie guid on page 8
tae thaim, acause the' wur aa laik sheep wi nae shepherd: troubl on page 9

33 matches

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