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The word 'liberty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
libertyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.33318
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 85 8 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 21.7 4 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 12 9 6
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 liberty in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
her liberty teen, on page 13

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Ah teen the liberty o orderin a decent wine fin w on page 34

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
grin an addit, "It's an effin liberty at's fit it is. Ah heard he's on page 9

1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
wi @BBCScotlandNews. I teen i liberty o deein an even mair localise(2019)

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 1), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
e / Than in ony’s barrin’ liberty and Christ.’
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"I'd raither stairve at liberty on page 230

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
d a tad dirty. So ah took the liberty tae give it a quick clean. Ah on page 192

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
To win to liberty.
speckle "-y" for the likes o "liberty" an "powny" (nae sic things a
2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
t ideals of Protestantism and Liberty - on page 69

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
h wis the notion o the Tree o Liberty, itsel the title o ane o Burn on page 121
been executed the Friends of Liberty an ithers still wantit reform on page 122

8 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
uncrook the liberty o its schottische. on page 112

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
alkin, an how it’s a fuckin liberty messin aboot wae a man ay ma
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Just Another Minute, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
es ay a sheet flung oer it. A liberty man, so it is.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
you, yer nothin but a fuckin liberty takin arsehole.’ ah sais, r
‘Liberty takin? he tried tae fuckin st
2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
d oor chains, an restored oor liberty. on page 31

1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
hough a period perspective, o liberty, oppression an conscience. Ef on page 40

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
The little liberty we hae bides wi them. on page 25

1 matches

Goodbrand Saunders, Donald Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
"Our very way of life, our liberty on page 55

1 matches

Perrie, Walter Lallans 74 - The Lion Laid Low by the Man, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
He had the liberty tae fudge an feint.
1 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
wbody hes the richt tae life, liberty and security o person.
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
We ken Americae’s myths. Liberty (the statue is ane the wurldâ
But whit o Liberty the day? We hae seen the wey
icht unnerneath the baunner o Liberty.
e daes that hae in the land o Liberty? The scunnersome, ugsome thin
4 matches

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