A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

lief Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1.5 0 0 0 0 7.7
Number of occurrences53 0 0 0 0 2
Number of authors4 2 2

Occurrences of lief in Corpus

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Central

Keaveney, Marcus Lallans 102 - Bein a Wid Tink, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
Set ben ma lief strewn howf gangst tha ruits on page 71

2 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Wee Tailor in the Haunted Kirkyaird, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, weans
The village fowk werena lief tae lippen tae whit he said,
1 matches

Ulster

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Gin Mag noo seechs hir lief alane, on page 32

1 matches

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
GIN YE LEEVE YER LIEF
1 matches

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