Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lint'

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Use in varieties of Scots

lint	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	6	20	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	3.3	1	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	18	7	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.6	2	2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)	981	6	1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)	116.3	2	1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)	32.8	1	1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of lint in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Corn, lint an yarn
1 matches

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 85 - D.I.Y. Doctor , (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ble. Noo, the shears an a bit lint oot the table drawer.' on page 36
ry move. 'Hae ye got that bit lint?' on page 36
haund haudin oan the platch o lint. 'Be it pace,' she telt Alan on page 37

6 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Gowden Gate Til Samarkan, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, poetry
An hou tae wile ye? Nae lint daes Daith hae on page 30

1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Wi your lint-white locks shrunk tae a gow on page 11

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
got tae mention Lassie Wi The Lint White Hair an a (but abune th(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
Her hair is lint on the muiveless air,
1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
the lint wiz lyin an' wet, on page 7
So Ah nivir agaen pulled lint. on page 8
The lint scutcher on page 9

6 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James The Lade, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
frae abain the brig whun the lint -watter wuz lut aff — near n
1 matches

Fenton, James A' it taks, (Ullans Press 2000) Ulster, poetry
The wat-lint hoag frae a seeplin bing
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
"Tha Meetin Hoose or tha lint hole?" on page 19

1 matches