A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lure'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lureOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.966
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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 lure in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
wirk awa fur a start, till da lure a play got da better a dem, a on page 92

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
wait in streams and lochs to lure humans. When folk would try a(2019)

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
For if ye dae, he'll lure ye tae the middlins o his lai on page 52

1 matches

Aitchison, Craig nobody remembers the birdman - Fishin the Mairch, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
ecklet wi glog - slidders by lure an soe on page 1

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Bairns ootside, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
r! An we didnae hae the siren lure o the myriad o smaw screens t
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, newspaper
hat - and this wee moth-like lure on page 5

1 matches

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