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The word 'leeteracy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
leeteracyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7153
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
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 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.4 10 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of leeteracy in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
thin ta be duin aboot it. Bit leeteracy ithin a dialect wid be anidde
eration o bairns ta establish leeteracy in Shaetlan. Bit under da pub
a standard spellin scomfishes leeteracy i da midder tongue.
3 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ht gie some a wee inlat intae leeteracy in Scots.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 101, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
aw thon wi 65,000 speakers an leeteracy levels no muckle better nor S
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
hoo faur the problem o Scots leeteracy gaes amang Scots speakers. Ca on page 6
nummer o Scots speakers wants leeteracy in thair ain leid? The narra- on page 7
nd thair ain weys intae Scots leeteracy. Thay owercame thair chancer on page 8
e'v learnt on yer journey tae leeteracy in Scots! on page 54
the best wey tae learn Scots leeteracy as ye will unnerstaun the ful on page 57
Also on pages 60
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