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The word 'lasts'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lastsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81613
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 20.1 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
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 lasts in Corpus

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Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
to wash dy hands we and soap lasts longer #ParentHack #SoapLasts (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
0 bought afore Sunday voucher lasts 10months https://t.co/XdAW4wl(2016)

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
e centre (inside an oot) that lasts aboot twa oors as weel as hae on page 6

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
and enjoy ur fooball while it lasts (2020) twitter link
land league just now - if it lasts! the fans thing really bugs m (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
farts: it pure rumbles an it lasts fur abo, a minute, an sometim on page 90

1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
Bit lasts fur three months never fear
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
in, sae, as lang as the Union lasts, “God Save the Queen”can
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
The indignance lasts til laundin time on page 53

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
e room, Aonghas' mighty voice lasts forever, the chesty resonance on page 3

3 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
this warld daurkness or licht lasts for langer periods.
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
mair then fir the 'new' paint lasts 25 year or so they say !!! (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
What lasts for Auld Lang Syne on page 23

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Name of person niver lasts on page 20

1 matches

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