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The word 'laura'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lauraOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus59.41977
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 847.7 191 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
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 laura 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.

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
st it - thanx for posting it laura (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ur it. Alasdair Kelman. Here. Laura Kyle. Laura Kyle comes runnin on page 46
ind at the end. Och but, said Laura. Och but nothin, he said, Thi on page 47
ouldn't wait so she's away wi Laura McNish. on page 49
ys talkin aboot thir cousins: Laura Kyle's relatet tae half ae fi on page 57
Me an Laura Kyle went in fur the trials f on page 66
Also on pages 67, 68, 73, 76, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 88, 91, 93, 97, 100, 101, 105, 106, 107, 108, 111, 112, 113, 124, 127, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 146, 147, 148, 149, 152, 153, 156, 157, 158, 159, 169
171 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Lallans 68 - Barlinnie Gradyooits, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
ur; That's a lota shiyt, said Laura Kiyl, They didnae steal that on page 41

2 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Cantsmell, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2020) Central, prose
Laura Kyle’s gettin moved seats c
are a desk wi Colin Cantwell. Laura said she’s no daein it. Ah
Laura wis doggin History the day. W
Ah said tae Laura, D’yi think Cantsmell reall
nly ever went tae clean hair. Laura jist laughed at me an then sh
17 matches

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
’d jist done ma way through Laura Ingalls Wilder an’ the Litt
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
attendit wi his Italian wife Laura. Gin he's able tae read this on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
say it? Oor grammar sheed, bi Laura Green, looks at the rules tha on page 5
bi Laura Green on page 21
Laura Green - Whit tae read? on page 60

3 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
Ye ken whit ye are, Laura... https://t.co/DIBWUufgkl(2016)

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