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The word 'leddies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
leddiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6129
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of leddies in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
a fee-peyin schule fur young leddies in the toun, tae polish her u
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
(The leddies were aa bonny there) Sae Mich on page 8
Spens Lies in a dwam o young leddies. on page 29

2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
Gin a' the leddies prays.
1 matches

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
tae leddies coortit whan in drink, or boc on page 139

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
lconer, a brither til the twa leddies (we irna tellt the signeifica
er sum jiggerie-powkerie, the leddies ir shawen intil a room whilk
. The veision saunts awa. The leddies ir mukkil fasht, but the guid
3 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
Norlin Pechts wi hir menyie o leddies It med a braw sicht on sicna on page 42

1 matches

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
like leddies in silken goons on page 31

1 matches

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Braw gentlemen wi their leddies at leisure tae dander, on page 43

1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
weel-brocht-up young leddies ti be subjectit ti thair ill-
1 matches

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