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The word 'leek'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
leekOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.655
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 leek in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
Skim emsail wis bursten fur a leek an coodna hud et en oney mair on page 51

1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
s as ayewis blooming tattie n leek! Lassie still trying tae prom(2018)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
y @pele_anderson am awa fir a leek shortly boyo! (2021) twitter link

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@AngelaHaggerty Leek n tattie purée(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
@capnbobfrapples A mutatit leek?(2020)