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The word 'lab'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
labOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12716
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 43.4 7 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.4 11 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 lab in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
yvind glories ithe guff o the lab. "Only haand| growen reeks th on page 28

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
point might be the emissions lab, whar hoses connect tae exhau
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"At's jist, Master, ma black lab." Tina grinned, a raa o yalla on page 56

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
e SNP but this typically Scot Lab point scoring is fuckin annoy (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
tion. Boffin gadgies wi white lab coats hae delvit weill intil
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
, a miniature poodle, a black lab, twa yorkies, a Pomeranian an
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
David Steel, is Lib-Dems (2), Lab (1), Con (1) an SNP (1). Coor
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Onybody wi a haufwey-daicent lab cud hae resurrectit Neanderth
tae a test tube in a Chinese lab. Bit they ramed resolutely on
ein back hame. “What is it, Lab-rat?”
ough, seemt tae be o acrood o lab technicians. He had gotten in
ileged status - his cut-doon lab overalls, meisurements he tan
5 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
wae the absence ae the fuckin Lab. And fur five hours ah goat t
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ur test results back from the lab’’ he tells me, appearin a
1 matches

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
o Lab on page 21

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 79 - The Ratton, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
the mooth wi binder-twine an lab thaim in the burn. Droonin wi on page 82

1 matches

Eagle, Andy Lallans 71 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
tten up in 2003 bi the Linden Lab (http://lindenlab.com) sae th
ain virtual warld. The Linden Lab ettles tae provide a warld li
udin collogues, an the Linden Lab haes a management blog (http:
nies tewin awa for the Linden Lab. It micht weel be richt eneuc
afore the awners, the Linden Lab, chairged for the preevilege.
7 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Lab buiks,
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Thon Survation poll..., (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
Lab 24-28%
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
is a state-o-the-art language lab A learned masel a pickle Germ
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
saumples, treatment, tanker, lab oor Scottish Watter''s jist t on page 77

1 matches

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