A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

laff Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 3 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences76 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of laff in Corpus

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Central

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Ye'll hae a laff, think Ah'm daft on page 105

1 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo's Wean, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303425) Central - Glasgow, weans
e place - or sumdy's havin a laff. on page 18

1 matches

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
eat a wee Prosecco and a guid laff ??????(2020) search twitter

@raiphsays tweeted
it evy yeer noo an its a wee laff tae read oot tae weans an pal(2020) search twitter
yin tae get hees follyers tae laff it ma stuff! RESULT! :D fank (2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
C aye the noo he is - n dont laff - his names shep lol (2020) twitter link

Doric

@McGoo1888 tweeted
.pelted feck oot them...great laff (2022) twitter link