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The word 'laucht'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lauchtOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62110
ORK - Orkney
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 94.2 3 1
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 56.2 4 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of laucht in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
gard. Maist o' us wummen jist laucht, an' got on wi' whit we were on page 17
She laucht then in that awfy coorse wety on page 18
Ocht, bit he jist laucht at me, Ah sometimes on page 24

3 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
I laucht as Governal said that it wis on page 42

1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Thay laucht oot lood on page 34

1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
It's maister laucht at ma roused haun, on page 9

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Ahint the cloud, but he laucht doun oor care on page 25
We laucht, on page 71

3 matches

DaibhidC Moa an the tynt sun, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
The wouf laucht an luekit frae her tae the bi
1 matches

solonggaybowser Merlin's Bairns, (archiveofourown.org 2020) Central, prose
a—" She did it again; Eggsy laucht, "Crannie, he's no inside the
Eggsy laucht again as she shoved his phone
2 matches

Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
te Brown insteid, tho syne he laucht "but my inbox hasn’t been i
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Ah never laucht, no be-in forritsum, lyke.
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
Alice laucht a wile lot ower this, that sh on page 56
shae wus out o sicht: thin it laucht. "Quare crack!" said the Gryp on page 93
an angry tone, an iveryboadie laucht. "Let the jury consider thir on page 122

3 matches

General Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne A Furst Readin Book in Ulster Scots, (Evertype 2011) Ulster, weans
goat go hame””’ The fox laucht an sed, “A cannae mak the g
Then the fox laucht an laucht.
oat run hame. Then the weefla laucht. Hae sed, “Thank yae, wee b
3 matches

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