Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lairs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

lairs	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	4.6	15	11
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
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	13.3	3	3
NEC - North East Central	46.4	1	1
SEC - (South) East Central	2.5	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	18.8	3	3
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)	62.4	5	1
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 lairs in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
ood aloof in thir weel tended lairs on page 26

1 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alastair Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Win, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
deid tae lie uneasy in their lairs on page 90

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
s o time. I'm booked in three lairs ben frae him, in the kirkyair on page 51

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
get ony peats cut. He hid twa lairs foo o
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tak tent o the Cabrach, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
abrach kirk tae pit a few new lairs in their kirkyaird, when thei
1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
lt at thai wes luikin fur the lairs o antecestors.
1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
frae the lairs o libbards. on page 8

1 matches

Purves, Jamie Lallans 102 - Aince, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
Bears hid thir rock lairs amang the bens, pale wolves y on page 12

1 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
the stench o mewlin lairs tae reek oot. on page 112

1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
orkit ends, tho foggit ashlar lairs on page 32

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
The auld lairs is ploued up intil riggs;
Tods lowp on the connacht lairs .
l the North an South ir fou o lairs
aisents til thair forbeir’s lairs .
But eftir sundoun, the lairs ir lowries’ dens
5 matches