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The word 'ligs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ligsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.9197
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 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 137.2 11 1
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 ligs in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 84 - Jamie’s Day Oot, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
hivvens lik ti say 'Ablow me ligs a body o substance, tak tent! on page 40

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Puir Tammie (folk said) ligs there yit, His banes melled w on page 14
'Whit oot-tapped the forest Ligs here, stane-dry; on page 25
a learned you fae a bairn. He ligs haurd by, on page 39

3 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
a ain imagined epitaph: "Here ligs Hugh S. Pyper: fur want o ony on page ix

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Deith ligs abuin it, nestin at a hicht on page 24

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
yir ligs are like twa spurtles on page 28

1 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
And live the life that ligs atween, on page 97

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Craik Ferm. This ferm ligs juist doon the waitter frae H
t wei nou ca Auld Wolf, whilk ligs oot o sicht, in ae slack i th
the waitter frae Craik Hope, ligs
Philhope Ferm ligs atween Braidlie Ferm an Elrig
l, pairt o the Hoscote Estate ligs on the tither side o the
11 matches

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