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Use in varieties of Scots

lek Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words32.1 1 151.6 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1042 101 0 1 0 0
Number of authors6 2 3 1

Occurrences of lek in Corpus

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Central

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
This is aw aboot the lek o life, and yer wager is yers on page x

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
a mukkil concrete lek. Sae Broun hed ti bak-cum at
1 matches

Doric

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
Lek patches on the grey hous frun on page 111
Lek a wild trumpat. on page 112
Lek a tunnel. on page 113
Lek a weet battery on page 121
Lek a bundle o auld letters on page 122
Also on pages 125
8 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
in e golden efternoon Careful lek we glide; on page 5
Lek pilgrim's wither'd wreath o f on page 6
rabbit-holl went straicht on lek a tunnel for a peedie way, an on page 8
tment id wis empty: she didna lek till drop e jar for fear o ki on page 9
ht catch a bat, an at's awful lek a moose, ee ken. But do cats on page 10
Also on pages 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 27, 30, 32, 34, 36, 37, 39, 40, 48, 49, 50, 51, 53, 55, 56, 57, 57, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 74, 76, 77, 81, 82, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 93, 96, 98, 100, 102, 111, 115, 117
92 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Loch Skeen, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
gress airt, its cawd the ‘Lek’ an thay strunt an shaw aff
1 matches

Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
s it's officially Skekler/Grølek season in Shetland https://t.(2020) search twitter