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The word 'leain'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
leainOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.12311
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 21.9 2 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.9 9 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 2
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) 109 6 1

Occurrences of leain in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
Zander wasna ower happy aboot leain im in the ludgin-house; but, on page 30

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
ng wi his wife an nyow bairn, leain the kirk tae fin some ither b on page 25

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
Wi that he vainished, leain Ian fickelt aince mair. The w on page 96

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West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
s haill-heidit at the pynes o leain the skuil an stertin wark (A' on page 9

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ttils ti jyne the meilitarie, leain the wife i the care o hir sis
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General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
n thirty copecks awthegither, leain ye your een rouble fifteen fo on page 139

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
flist blew awa awthing licht leain jist the heavy rocks tae gang
an ither bodies fleein aboot, leain it wi mony craters. In a puck
splairged ootwards ilka airt leain it wi smooth regions that pit
o the early planets brak up, leain the aff-fawins o itsel ahin,
n crackit the ammonia surface leain it wi the cleuchs we see the
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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
‘spray o apostrophes’ (an leain oot the actual apostrophes di
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Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Leain the translation
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Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
a Scots MP’s hamelt leid is leain Soothron memmers o pairlament
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South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ae bletherin only wi itsel an leain oot on page 23

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@StuartPoet tweeted
the yin 'side'. Aw thon buses leain (2020)
llie. Hated it, aw thon buses leain fir Glesca oan Setterday morn(2020)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
bak ïntae Galilee. An eftèr leain Nazareth, he gaed tae Caperna on page 4
As Jhone's follaers wur leain, Jesus stairtit tae taak tae on page 9
i hïm. An as tha twa men wus leain Jesus, Petèr sayed, "Dominie on page 86
Tha nixt moarnin, whan he wus leain, he tuk oot twa siller coins on page 88
Can A hae noo whut ye wur for leain me ïn yer wull?' Sae tha fai on page 96
Also on pages 104
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