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The word 'liam'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
liamOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.8258
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 69 15 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 55.6 4 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of liam in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Naewey tae bide, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
e dout that haein the likes o Liam Gallagher an Amy Macdonald pe
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ed acroass his puss as big as Liam Neeson if he'd jist been cast on page 116

1 matches

West Central

Nicol, Alissa Poor Wee Livvy, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - North Lanarkshire, weans
e four ae them, Livvy, Lewis, Liam and Abby that night. Ma poor
whispers comin fae Lewis and Liam. "Liv's maw's gonaae gee her
n's heid." Lewis whispered to Liam, pointing at Livvy.
a massive oak tree. Lewis and Liam, ahint the wall ae the main l
unds like a skinwalker, Liv." Liam piped up.
15 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
. Furdermair, Tavish Scott an Liam McArthur comfortably held the
1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
@PureFitbaw Think Liam Palmer’s pushin hard..??????(2019)

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
ick oan the border? Kick oan, Liam ??????????????(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
an Liam wis the yin on page 31
an Liam askit some qweestions on page 32

4 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@Limerick1914 Weel said Liam: that's what we caa "a quare (2015) twitter link