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The word 'laeves'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
laevesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.1177
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 93 16 6
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 laeves 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
aekers bide silent. The wrack laeves the screen. "Right enogh," sa on page 115

1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
apon a coose o sticks an dry laeves, an dat wis da faain feenishe on page 10
an fannin hersel wi een o da laeves. "I wid fairly a laekit til a on page 42
aek a seg oot o a sea o green laeves far awa anunder her. on page 52
rain o shakkin among da green laeves awa doon yonder. on page 53
laeves at wis blaan doon aff o da tr on page 124

6 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
!" I exclaimed, "Bit dat wife laeves here wi a trolley foo a maet on page 44
wort flooer wi its lime green laeves, treacherously invitin tae on on page 91

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
an laeves haeps o skittered poems on page 35

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Da hairst laeves faa on page 110
fruity hint o dry blackcurran laeves, on page 111

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
N FOUL MUCK FAE YOUR FLÖR AN LAEVES AATHIN SHEENY BRICHT,’ hit
1 matches

Sinclair, Lise Juist laek Maunna, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, poetry
Tae-laeves, tikk an sturkened wi shugger
1 matches

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
mooth. Nobody cam efter me. I laeves da basket a da face a da stac
1 matches

Sinclair, Lise Fauld up da Feddoms, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, poetry
Laeves wis dew an staurs makkin new
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Birsie’s Brunt Bed, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
said Meenie in her wye dat laeves little choice. “A’ll maak
1 matches

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