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The word 'laffin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
laffinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
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 393.1 3 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 laffin in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
k...hawdin oan tae each other laffin wis ace...she wis oan mah sho (2021) twitter link
t peeved at me being in kinks laffin.... (2022) twitter link
Permission tae wet massell laffin at the utter garbage spouted (2021) twitter link

General Northern

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
lard Heard that, pished masel laffin. Some fuckin zoomer statement(2019)

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
whit set us bairnies laffin. on page 40

1 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - Three Waddins and Fowr Funerals - a monologue, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
and talker. He aye had awbody laffin. A wis that prood tae be seen on page 59

1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
coonseller guy lissenin, bit laffin a bit an aw.. https://t.co/pi(2020)

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