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The word 'forleit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
forleitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4136
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 87.3 7 3
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of forleit in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
ak hir ben the houss an dinna forleit hir wallets.” Mirren
Thai maun a forleit A wes ane alienar sae A slope
ane auld deisil rodd-rowler, forleit at the fuit o Roslin Glen.
3 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 76 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
, i the medieval times, didna forleit thair haimelt tung, nor in oo on page 3

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
oyen o his wife. He ettils ti forleit his mither an ride aff ti war on page 139

1 matches

Ayrshire

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 83 - Cochise o the Apache Nation, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
I'm no ettlin tae forleit ocht on page 26

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purdie, David C. Lallans 90 - Le Vin de Mon Pays, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Southern, poetry
Forleit yer gin or rum or sherry, on page 7

1 matches

Purves, David Lallans 75 - On War, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
r bund bi dour human laws, ti forleit wife an bairns, ti haud forri
1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
he middle hoose. A’ve niver forleit hou Kate Tamson yaised tae re
A juist aboot forleit tae mint thit i the guid simm
Afore A forleit, A read (sei D ) at aboot hau
n Roberton schuil, bot A’ve forleit
Ay! A’ll ne’er forleit hou by-ordinar it wur tae mei
5 matches

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