A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

lecky Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 2 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences54 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of lecky in Corpus

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Central

Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
sayin he wid show me how fur lecky cuid be used tae light a the
wi the lamps aff, ye cuid see lecky spark wi pointy shards atween
ined tae Cook aboot the scary lecky device that Mr Baxter hud sho
ly, “We shuid ne’er trust lecky fur it’s ungodly an dangero
4 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
his car wis brukken doon; the lecky wis due; twis his birthday .
1 matches

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