A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

Intro a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Texts Writers Statistics Top200 Search Compare

Concordance

Enter a word to find all occurrences of, for example sonsie

Occurrences of laek in Corpus sorted by last letter of previous word

- basic concord - post-sorted concord - map and chronology - chronogrid - similar spellings - fine-grain concord -
Shetland - SHD Laek wi aboot twa thirds o da lang
Shetland - SHD laek De'r paece, De'r lochs, De'r
Shetland - SHD Laek aa Germanic languages, Shaetl
Shetland - SHD laek pronouns whin d'ir øsed on d
Shetland - SHD laek ta splinter da raem-calm Våg
Shetland - SHD laek a single unit. Da choice o wi
Shetland - SHD laek black fantin, black affrontit
Shetland - SHD Laek neem, rank an number;
Shetland - SHD laek a lambin sun
Shetland - SHD laek lippenin sumtheen
Shetland - SHD laek a dorro an da haand apön da
Shetland - SHD Laek a deuk wi hits ee-wharms, he
Shetland - SHD laek staurs da lift
Shetland - SHD laek baests ati'dir bizzie,
Orkney - ORK Laek clippan smelly pelters fae th
Shetland - SHD ffrence atween da soonds /e/ (laek da ai in traivel) an /ø/ (as
Shetland - SHD ffrence atween da soonds /e/ (laek da "ai" in "traivel") an /ø/
Shetland - SHD vational morpheme - ie an aa (laek in daftie, sweetie, etc) at's
Shetland - SHD say a consonant, he's voiced (laek b, d, g, z, v, etc); if yir v
Shetland - SHD yurled up wi da suffix - ing (laek weddung 'wedding'). Dis is wh
Shetland - SHD ttered up wi da suffix - ing (laek weddung 'wedding'). Dis is wh
Shetland - SHD e naemed different languages (laek St. Swedish an St. Norwegian,
Shetland - SHD o Rain rains (laek Turkish yağmur yağiyor) or
Shetland - SHD Verbs refers tae actions (laek dance, hosst, write), process
Shetland - SHD egian), wharas idders øs ö (laek Swedish). Wir pickit ø as it
Shetland - SHD ne, an some languages øs ø (laek Norwegian), wharas idders øs
Shetland - SHD single argument (da subject), laek sleep. Idda follooin sentence
Shetland - SHD Dis last wis med, laek da iddirs, in Ingleesh, an la
Shetland - SHD e dat some grinds wir manned, laek a toll, an dir wis a charge (
Shetland - SHD doon intae a single compound, laek Tae kerry on → a onkerry (o
Shetland - SHD sumwye idder idda sentence, laek John did whit??, John gied wh
Shetland - SHD aan wi a doobled-up grapheme, laek in tell /tɛɫ/, bigg /bɪg/,
Shetland - SHD a Alice wi a seich, "is lang, laek me tail-an sad."
Shetland - SHD ywye shö wantit him ta geng, laek a snake.
Shetland - SHD , maistli fae Latin an Greek, laek declaration, documentation, v
Shetland - SHD in shü wid congratulate dem, laek da idder neebirs wis dune, bi
Shetland - SHD Rock he steppit up on ta him, laek I wis dune mony a time, an da
Shetland - SHD ageen: "- at starts wi an M, laek moose-traps, an da mön, an m
Shetland - SHD his göd airm in defiance an, laek Joshua
Shetland - SHD situation, laek See dis!, Is du seen yun?, an
Shetland - SHD in a stressed position or no, laek:
Shetland - SHD idder, laek come, ging, haste, sit doon,
Shetland - SHD sumwye or idder, laek come, ging, haste, sit doon,
Shetland - SHD ane, ivory , metal or silver, laek wir een. Dey wir treasured po
Shetland - SHD appit jüst een o yun soonds, laek swappin da hindmaist een tae
Shetland - SHD mak ditransitive sentences, laek
Shetland - SHD arteeclar bodies or plaesses, laek Mary, Mr Johnson, Lerwick, Sh
Shetland - SHD onythin at canna be coontit, laek saand or oo, an abstract ting
Shetland - SHD s entities at can be coontit, laek shair, flooer, draem, idee. C
Shetland - SHD ee specific period wis meant, laek The spring of 2020
Shetland - SHD noun at's bein spokken aboot, laek
Orkney - ORK A real work o art, laek whut they can be,
Shetland - SHD on da bed gigglin helplessly, laek twa teenagers.
Shetland - SHD it wid a med a most aafil ill-laek bairn: but hit maks a kinda b
Shetland - SHD a Duchess wis truly aafil ill-laek; an for anidder, shö wis exa
Shetland - SHD mmar an pronunciation doon - laek in Grammar and Usage of the S
Shetland - SHD Dey wir truly a wheer-laek baand at gaddered apo da broo
Shetland - SHD ered up dir midder tongues - laek Faera, Catalonia, Friesland,
Shetland - SHD s o nouns ithin ony language. Laek in maist languages, da main k
Shetland - SHD tae step oot o da limelight. Laek aa celebs A’m needin a grai
Shetland - SHD oot wha's bein spokken aboot. Laek, if John is athin a baand, da
Shetland - SHD oot wha's bein spokken aboot. Laek, if John is ithin a baand, da
Shetland - SHD rst time hit gied aff in 1821 laek hit wis yisterday. Less a les
Shetland - SHD curls. Still, I suppose we aa laek ta tink weel a wir ain, an Jo
Shetland - SHD up graet mountains a waar, da laek a what da fokk wis nivver see
Shetland - SHD terrible feerie dis mont, da laek o wir niver kent. First da ba
Shetland - SHD n man gowlin, I nivver saa da laek. If I cood win oot a dis chai
Shetland - SHD se New Year. Hiv you heard da laek? I tocht she’d hiv hed enoc
Shetland - SHD . Me, blate? Hiv you heard da laek?
Shetland - SHD : no at shö wis ever done da laek afore, but shö mindit seein
Shetland - SHD ha's fir gyaan daday?), an da laek. Whaaras, da conjunction
Shetland - SHD an - an barley-shuggar an da laek at maks bairns sweet-naitered
Shetland - SHD ery dat I wis seen naethin da laek o afore. Dere wis pumps, gene
Shetland - SHD r ‘spaekin Whaalsa’ or da laek. Dis is whit I caa micro-dial
Shetland - SHD Whit wye can you get da laek döne?"
Shetland - SHD oot hit wis: only Alice didna laek ta be telt dat. "Hit is a see
Shetland - SHD table. Hoosumever, shö didna laek ta be impident, so shö böre
Shetland - SHD t - he wis empty: shö didna laek ta slip da jar for faer at he
Shetland - SHD nster o a hoose at shö didna laek ta geng ony elosser till shö
Shetland - SHD lessons ta laern! Oh, I widna laek dat!"
Shetland - SHD trowie wirld secret. I widna laek tae think A’m gaein ower mu
Shetland - SHD “I widna laek tae say,” he said lickin hi
Shetland - SHD "I dunna laek da looks o him ava," said da
Shetland - SHD s or dugs edder, if du doesna laek dem!" Whin da Moose heard dis
Shetland - SHD on apon it. "Naebody seems ta laek her doon here, an A'm sure sh
Orkney - ORK the hand. Beuy, beuy, whut a laek hand he hid efter!
Shetland - SHD mi ain editor's request. Sic laek, hit's da first bit o prose a
Shetland - SHD blue, roond, boannie, an sic laek. A lok o da time adjectives c
Shetland - SHD "Da news spread laek wildfire, an da nixt day Ruby
Shetland - SHD wis terrible. My troat sweed laek some een wis taen a tattie pa
Shetland - SHD a paet an her nose is snirled laek dir is a guff aboot her. Her
Orkney - ORK He drapped laek he wis shot,
Shetland - SHD t aside da fire wi tree tired laek een. But bein Olina she wis s
Shetland - SHD an whatno. So dat lambs lived laek loards, an whin we pat dem ta
Shetland - SHD d wi him, an a baa at miaowed laek a cat. Shü gie him a moose,
Shetland - SHD shd never kent whedder he wid laek da name: hoosumever, he juist
Shetland - SHD "I wid laek ta hae dis explenned," said d
Shetland - SHD "I wid laek dat aafil weel," said Alice,
Shetland - SHD ageen, eonsiderin dis. "I wid laek ta hear. her tryin ta say owe
Shetland - SHD "Weel, I wid laek ta be a peerie scaar bigger,
Shetland - SHD ie dug no far fae wirs, I wid laek ta shaa dee him! A peerie bri
Shetland - SHD ein dem kirsen stroods. I wid laek ta see ony evidence fae onywy
Shetland - SHD etland you think your Mam wid laek."
Shetland - SHD “Da Görwill trows wid laek tae bid da Truncherfaece faim
Shetland - SHD terson at da skule, an I mind laek yesterday dat Monday moarnin
Shetland - SHD urces, bit ta me dey aa soond laek contradictions in terms. Caas
Shetland - SHD a richt Viking no hae a beard laek mine? Coorse an weel lived in
Shetland - SHD a collective noun - a wird laek ‘watter’ or maybe better
Shetland - SHD - in, an dat means at a wird laek winnin doesna hae ony contrac
Shetland - SHD your fancy. Wid Meenie mebbe laek some o da potions or ointment
Shetland - SHD e whit da nixt witness wid be laek, " - for dey dunna hae muckl
Shetland - SHD er tae hersel whit hit wid be laek ta live in sicean a wheer wye
Shetland - SHD sam as adjectives. A sentence laek Yun's aafil
Shetland - SHD Hoosumivver, in a sentence laek:
Shetland - SHD Shü sood nivver a lost blude laek yun."
Orkney - ORK never saa - or smelt - the laek.
Shetland - SHD he said wis, "Why is a corbie laek a writin-desk?"
Shetland - SHD sidie for sidie laek train-tracks
Shetland - SHD hills, he doesna hae spaegie laek wis!” he said gaein his hoc
Shetland - SHD I didna geng tae da Nort Pole laek a lok of fokk tink. Dere’s
Shetland - SHD thing ta caa it: hit's a name laek Ulster Scots, and laek idder
Shetland - SHD r. I dunna want her ta see me laek dis, so gie her a kiss fae me
Shetland - SHD Na, bairns, at a time laek dis Sae waarm an sleepy-wye,
Shetland - SHD As I sat dere laek a blockeet on amp
Shetland - SHD ent o neck, at seemed ta rise laek a seg oot o a sea o green lae
Shetland - SHD ot her intae da car, an drave laek hell tae da hospital. Dey rus
Shetland - SHD dd ta get used wi, whidder we laek it or no, bit dis ... dis is
Shetland - SHD doon dialect as muckle as we laek, we can widen it as muckle as
Shetland - SHD can widen it as muckle as we laek. So while we greet aboot Burr
Shetland - SHD etlan trow kent o wis dancing laek dey’d niver danced afore.
Shetland - SHD se traditions tae be onything laek wir ain.
Shetland - SHD attle. "Weel, du's ill aneoch laek, but du's ower peerie."
Shetland - SHD da Mairch Hare pat in, "at 'I laek whit I get' is da sam thing a
Shetland - SHD But hit’s no for me. I laek tae geng intae a shop an grip
Shetland - SHD ll me dat first, an dan, if I laek bein dat body, A'll come up:
Shetland - SHD t soarro wan o dem hed a neck laek yon! Na, na, du's a snake; an
Shetland - SHD Fences canna spaek laek a daek -
Shetland - SHD atil a gas oven. Gettin drunk laek a man wis mair respectable as
Shetland - SHD s du widna birze up alang fok laek dis," said da Dormoose, at wi
Shetland - SHD a vegetable. Hit doesna look laek een, but hit is."
Shetland - SHD head, lang-faced. "Dö I look laek it?" he said. (An dat he trul
Shetland - SHD "He most be med it look laek someen idder's writin," said
Shetland - SHD Relative clauses wirk laek modifiers an say wha or whit
Shetland - SHD ain, ithoot da noun, dey wirk laek pronouns (see Section 4.3.3 a
Shetland - SHD s draa in as he’s nocturnal laek wirsels.
Shetland - SHD , dey might tak eftir da weel laek Truncherfaece side o da faimi
Shetland - SHD D'ir aafil laek tae caase misunderstaandeens.
Shetland - SHD t eatch a bat, an dat's aafil laek a moose, du kens. But does ea
Shetland - SHD . Aabody kens dey hiv afo ill laek babies. Wir bairns could say
Shetland - SHD er his skave nose. He wis ill laek wi lirkit skin an slitty een.
Central - LAL Dir nae föl laek a aald föl
Shetland - SHD clocks, worms; he glaeps dem laek sweeties!
Shetland - SHD d a sowl, Juist couldna sweem laek dee.
Shetland - SHD sed an her een glanced at him laek splinters a shappit gless.
Shetland - SHD iters o tradeetional Shaetlan laek J.W. Laesk. Dis is da wye at
Shetland - SHD ’s no a beast, he‘s a man laek a beast. He used tae bide in
Shetland - SHD s stupefeed wi da haet day an laek ta neib ower) whedder da plai
Shetland - SHD wi a roond face, an grett een laek a frug haes; an baith o da fl
Shetland - SHD sees at da cost is clear, in laek a flash, an oot agyen wi da f
Shetland - SHD per an flechs. Dat is naethin laek a Viking beard.”
Shetland - SHD w an arrows. Dere’s naethin laek a trowshot yowe tae plaese yo
Shetland - SHD , an blaand, dir just naethin laek it at you can buy.
Shetland - SHD r idea o da tale wis somethin laek dis:
Shetland - SHD Sumthin laek *whit is he no comin wye? wid
Shetland - SHD command (sumthin laek You write (now)!). In dat cae
Shetland - SHD But nauthin laek da traet a store
Shetland - SHD y spottit wi his nose sheenin laek a red licht bulb.
Shetland - SHD Eence da howe wis sheenin laek a preen Meenie reesled in a d
Shetland - SHD n noo, der nae ös in greetin laek yon!" Alice telt hersel, kind
Shetland - SHD "Dunna tak on laek yun, Maggie," Mam said, whin
Shetland - SHD makker spak on. "Hit gengs on laek dis, du kens: -
Shetland - SHD a rabbit-hol guid streight on laek a tunnel for a start, an dan,
Shetland - SHD ar. Willie da real sailor, no laek him, wi his asthma, at wis ni
Shetland - SHD cood wirk da grund aerly, no laek dis graet heavy tractors dey
Orkney - ORK Wur Jeemie deudno laek him much,
Shetland - SHD u says," warned Bob, "He's no laek dee, dis is a massive event i
Shetland - SHD lang ringlets, an mine is no laek dat ava; an A'm sure I canna
Orkney - ORK Or you could end aap laek Tammie, filled aap in every p
Shetland - SHD enoch, dere he wis birsed up laek a baa.
Shetland - SHD Alice. "I most be shuttin up laek a telescop."
Shetland - SHD ö wiss I could juist shut up laek a telescop! I tink I could, i
Shetland - SHD RT, hit said, ’LL DISAPPEAR LAEK MAGIC. Dodie didna ken whedde
Shetland - SHD am aboot, fur he wid nae faer laek ta aet dem if he got da chanc
Shetland - SHD ttin at da desk wis a younger laek elf wi da 2008 file. He leapt
Shetland - SHD ." An aff guid da executioner laek a shot.
Shetland - SHD nger, mair talented an better laek writer tae tak ower fae me di
Shetland - SHD rows o raisins. “Far better laek as da rumble dey left,” he
Shetland - SHD lowing nicht Jeemie wis niver laek tae appear. Hit wis weel past
Shetland - SHD my chance. I crept doon ower laek a whitrit eftir his prey. I c
Shetland - SHD peerie lass wi a head o hair laek a craa’s nest. “I can see
Shetland - SHD xcitin is da wrang wird, mair laek tragic, bit du'll be heard al
Shetland - SHD in gale fae da nor aest, mair laek da hert hol a winter, althoug
Shetland - SHD maks Shaetlan structure mair laek Standirt English. As weel as
Shetland - SHD contrast, an mair laek da Spanish 3-wye system.
Shetland - SHD tae "I want ta see what he's laek noo, dat terrified boy i da d
Shetland - SHD "Dat's laek ta tak a braa start," da Gryp
Shetland - SHD tak dir leave fur da big jobs laek dat. I can assure you dir no
Shetland - SHD erie. Dey lay in dir box beds laek weet cloots. Da noise o aa fo
Shetland - SHD nt passed, an we shook haands laek strangers.
Shetland - SHD Hegri, du staands laek a ston ida shoormal.
Shetland - SHD Modren English in compounds laek sweatmeat, bakemeat, milkmeat
Shetland - SHD tical example, an write wirds laek baak wi dooble AA whidder we
Shetland - SHD aa’ or ‘aw’, an wirds laek fecht wi a CH whidder we say
Shetland - SHD na write a dooble AA in wirds laek haff an watter, at - as faar
Shetland - SHD s nae ‘ch’ soond in wirds laek dicht, fecht, an sae on; yit
Shetland - SHD ck o ‘aw’ soonds in wirds laek faa, an maas, bit i da cover
Shetland - SHD spellin. I write dis in wirds laek baak, baarn, taaties, faa -
Shetland - SHD ferent pronunciations o wirds laek ‘more’ an ‘there’ in
Orkney - ORK like tae knock oot a big baes laek a coo, thir's fairly big dose
Shetland - SHD otch at’s wrocht in plaeces laek Faera.
Shetland - SHD ts ithin impersonal sentences laek:
Shetland - SHD at we associate wi languages laek Welsh, Gaelic, Faroese, Catal
Shetland - SHD freends in London. Shti does laek animals though, an just adore
Shetland - SHD en if hit consistit o phrases laek ‘I seen all dem fock whit d
Shetland - SHD erature report we git phrases laek "standardised system of diale
Shetland - SHD in noo an ageen, sayin things laek: "Sure, I don't like it, yer
Shetland - SHD uld spaek aboot modern things laek computers in dialect.) In a l
Shetland - SHD burgh at we shared, so things laek dis wid come up in discussion
Shetland - SHD Da wird ‘dialect’ here is laek a collective noun - a wird l
Shetland - SHD m. Da tombs, tools an lemm is laek dat at's fun idda wast o Scot
Shetland - SHD a guff aboot her. Her hair is laek a craa’s nest an her green
Shetland - SHD s fae tadpoles intae frogs is laek naethin idder. So I tocht an
Shetland - SHD I telt him. “My troat is laek sand paeper, A’m haet an ca
Shetland - SHD concept o da wird, dialect is laek a whaalblub - hit haes nae b
Shetland - SHD wis da taen aff! Her face wis laek da coll, an shö wis ill plae
Shetland - SHD An if da tale wis laek ta stop Or linned in ony wye,
Shetland - SHD ll her hert, an da pair o wis laek ta greet.
Shetland - SHD high screichin voices at wis laek ta gie you a heidache. Nivver
Shetland - SHD im seichin as if his hert wis laek ta brak. Sh6 truly peetied hi
Shetland - SHD different sizes in ee day is laek ta merr a body."
Shetland - SHD ‘preservin da dialect’ is laek da dumba at da pirr blew fae
Shetland - SHD mony fock at actually spaeks laek dis reads Leonard’s poiems.
Shetland - SHD s. A roond elf wife wi sheeks laek sheeny red aipples wis dyshin
Shetland - SHD erbs da past participle looks laek da past tense form. A'm seen
Shetland - SHD substitutes da noun an wirks laek a pronoun:
Shetland - SHD haand, an push whin du feels laek it ... wan last push ... noo!
Shetland - SHD hentin da morsels laek a thief afore
Shetland - SHD or, gaanin up inta da heevens laek someen witless.
Shetland - SHD rst, "whit wye your cat grins laek yon?"
Shetland - SHD ie. “Or du’ll git ribbons laek dy sister.”
Shetland - SHD Da bairns laek naethin better as a game o ca
Shetland - SHD ?. Shaetlan haes twa pronouns laek yun, wha (fir fokk) an whit (
Shetland - SHD ," said Alice, "a muckle lass laek dee," (sae weel micht shö sa
Shetland - SHD icht,” I lached. “Dat’s laek winnin da lottery!”
Shetland - SHD some aald newspapers. We sat laek dat till atween seeven an eig
Shetland - SHD Whaar dayset laek some hamely haand
Shetland - SHD it." (An seein as you micht laek ta try dis yoursel, some wint
Shetland - SHD s o da bairns shü hated, bit laek da pain o a woondit animal, a
Shetland - SHD "Whit laek wis dat?" said Alice.
Shetland - SHD h tae turn your stamach. Whit laek wid her bairns be?
Shetland - SHD ta is wint tae shaa mair whit laek it is idda nations at haes da
Shetland - SHD ry it first till du sees whit laek it taests.
Shetland - SHD ? I wis draan tae whit lookit laek a muckle haily puckle wrappit
Shetland - SHD s. His midder said dey lookit laek a raa a giant hundiclokks mar
Shetland - SHD en an much needed. Dey sookit laek hungry caddy lambs til dey wi
Shetland - SHD fter giowerin at her a meenit laek a wild baest, shö scrieched,
Shetland - SHD ryin clubs; dey wir aa shapit laek da tree gairdeners, oblong an
Shetland - SHD unna shokk him - Whit wis it laek, boy? Whit cam at dee? Tell w
Shetland - SHD s wi a swaab. An naebody felt laek aetin a hill berry.
Shetland - SHD ! Dunna geng eltin me wi pent laek yon!"
Shetland - SHD ö startit oarderin fok aboot laek yon!"
Shetland - SHD ainers brigade shü stude oot laek a time traveller fae anidder
Shetland - SHD rammar); "noo A'm oppenin oot laek da biggest telescop at ever w
Shetland - SHD aye spaekin tae her, earnest laek. Weel some athletes seem ta l
Shetland - SHD Juist laek maunna
Shetland - SHD legs in aa directions, "juist laek a starfish," tocht Alice. Poo
Shetland - SHD , tinkin at dis most be juist laek haein a game wi a kert-horse,
Shetland - SHD da lum! So, up he guid, joost laek a speedir. Da tree peerie gri
Shetland - SHD An green claas joost laek Olina’s. Hit wis ony dir ha
Shetland - SHD s an pointy lugs he wis joost laek da picters on Christmas caird
Shetland - SHD ice exclaimed, "In 1880! Just laek dat aafil Smash I used ta aet
Shetland - SHD dey did win oot dey wir just laek newly slippit rams. Laekit a
Shetland - SHD e mak oot. In Shaetlan, jüst laek in maist varieties o English
Shetland - SHD tten mair toys as me! Wid you laek ta hadd him? You can sit ati
Shetland - SHD dat you can spell onywye you laek sae laang as fok cin understa
Shetland - SHD an ah'll bet you onything you laek at shü'll come oot wi me."
Shetland - SHD ialect’ doon as faar as you laek - Aest Burra, Wast Burra, So
Shetland - SHD can write hit ony wye at you laek.
Shetland - SHD ’re niver lippenin dem. Dey laek tae reesel men fae dir beds a
Shetland - SHD An herdly laek ta pit a fit on da bully-stee
Shetland - SHD ftin o shampoo. Is dat really laek a Viking?
Shetland - SHD apön a steekit kame – laek inuksuit,
Shetland - SHD wis by wi at last: "an I dö laek yon uncan song aboot da white