A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lek'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lekOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus31.21046
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 3516.4 100 2
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 lek in Corpus

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Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
s it's officially Skekler/Grølek season in Shetland https://t.(2020)

North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
Lek patches on the grey hous frun on page 111
Lek a wild trumpat. on page 112
Lek a tunnel. on page 113
Lek a weet battery on page 121
Lek a bundle o auld letters on page 122
Also on pages 125
8 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
in e golden efternoon Careful lek we glide; on page 5
Lek pilgrim's wither'd wreath o f on page 6
rabbit-holl went straicht on lek a tunnel for a peedie way, an on page 8
tment id wis empty: she didna lek till drop e jar for fear o ki on page 9
ht catch a bat, an at's awful lek a moose, ee ken. But do cats on page 10
Also on pages 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 27, 30, 32, 34, 36, 37, 39, 40, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 55, 56, 57, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 74, 76, 77, 81, 82, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 93, 96, 98, 100, 102, 111, 115, 117
92 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
gress airt, its cawd the ‘Lek’ an thay strunt an shaw aff
1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
a mukkil concrete lek. Sae Broun hed ti bak-cum at
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
This is aw aboot the lek o life, and yer wager is yers on page x

1 matches

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