A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'luvs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
luvsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4114
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 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 1
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 luvs in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
nt. "Nellie" ll like ess, she luvs er flooers." on page 25

1 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
at but al tell ee the big man luvs the scenes - c whit ees kin (2020) twitter link
ne is oan the telly - lassie luvs a taxi driver lol (2021) twitter link
who all luvs the fm n the snp noo - gaun (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ote on the lamp post Chazza C luvs S.I.P (Sumdy In Particular) a on page 110
CHAZZA AN DUFFYCHARLENE BROON LUVS CHRISTOPHER DUFFY TRU LUV 4EV on page 169

2 matches

General Central

@raiphsays tweeted
Miller14 @agrandadathome Aw a luvs tae go! Whit a mazin time!(2020)
18 Aw Ats whits aboot here! A luvs it!(2020)
t is a dreem tae be er! A jus luvs it! A youshly go 3 time a yee(2020)
@SHELDOMNI Aw a luvs em tae!! A hus hunners in a b(2020)
rman fur spider is *Spinne* A luvs at!! Da ist eine Spinne im Wa(2020)