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Use in varieties of Scots

lego Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.9 7.2 4.5 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences1914 3 0 1 0 1
Number of authors10 5 3 1 1

Occurrences of lego in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
is the dreary lookin violated Lego sets the government pit up ta on page 90

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Logan, Kirsty Lego, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
Ma hoose seemed like lego. When I got hame, there were
a be changed. But it wis like lego. If it wisna lookin right, yo
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@g_hibby tweeted
ess tae enjoying knocking the Lego intae shape Freckles... :) I (2022) twitter link
ae ye Jan.. :) Been doing the Lego build, that's it done for the (2022) twitter link
rlier, they're now building a lego structure.. Think it's a gara (2022) twitter link
:) I'm gonna bash oan wi' ma Lego build.. And wish ye aw' a gui (2023) twitter link
scope done.. :) Enjoying this Lego gig.. :) I'm away tae assist (2022) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.

@gordimhor1 tweeted
ruth_wishart I widnae build a lego house to a design by that man(2020) search twitter

@jax6754 tweeted
....An yir bairn will get yir lego.....just no fir the next coup(2015) search twitter
the best! Think I forsee more LEGO time acoming fir you? ?X(2015) search twitter
e anytime fir PS thingyies or Lego then! Hee hee!?? XXX(2015) search twitter
is! But whit happened tae yir Lego CR??? X(2015) search twitter

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
oses thegither like a bairn's lego. Here, a rowth o faitherless
1 matches

The Flying Pigs The ‘Naked Cleaners’ idea is appalling. It’s sexist, demeaning, and at £80 an hour, steep, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
tered o’er a jagged pile of Lego in my lobby, or got their foo
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
n it opens. #doric #aberdeen #LEGO https://t.co/MFOiIuRdVy(2019) search twitter

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ood o dem sorted oot a roog o Lego. Aside dem lay a kinda fat el
1 matches

Ulster

Thompson, Mark Address to a Nintendo DS, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster - Ards, poetry
Lego Star Wars an’ then Super Ma
1 matches

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