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The word 'leck'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
leckOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.1274
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 738.4 21 1
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
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 85.3 3 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of leck in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
ea in case they both sprung a leck! on page 58

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
n dipped doon, all o a sudden leck, so sudden at Alice hedna a m on page 8
sayan till her, awful serious leck, "Noo, Dinah, tell me e truth on page 10
dy bit, an sade kinda worried leck till hersel, "Wheech way? Whe on page 14
ldan, an she dropped id quick leck, joost in time till avoid shr on page 19
oked at her rether interested leck, an seemed till her till wink on page 21
Also on pages 30, 56, 60, 67, 70, 72, 82, 90, 99, 112, 114, 115
21 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
tern, aa even on her favour's leck. on page 9
Corp-cauld on a leck o stane, on page 80

2 matches

General Ulster

Smyth, Anne I Corinthians 13, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster, prose
r A wus jist a wean, A taaked leck a wean, A unnèrstuid leck a
a wean, A unnèrstuid leck a wean, A thocht leck a wean:
a wean, A thocht leck a wean: whanivver A wus man-g
3 matches

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