A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'leas'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
leasOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2149
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
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 56.9 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of leas in Corpus

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West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
Millar leas the darg til his mensefu dug,
im. Thus the speiritual warld leas its merk on the rael ane.
hawin him a gallerie afore he leas, an o coorse, thare, he behau
3 matches

Clark, Thomas Scots an the smit: a language unner lockdoun, (Bella Caledonia 2020) Central - Bellshill, blog
id-19 haes driven us frae the leas, sent us back tae sílent spa
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
In leas sae bluitert up oan dew on page 64
Wi yer fruitfu leas an ill-shakkin haunds on page 106

2 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
in times o want, acause this leas the fermers wi nae mercat. He
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
voice in the foregane verses leas it in nae doot that mair will
1 matches

Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
e is warth quotin in full; MP Leas Memmers Raivelt (April 3, 201
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
e bae the stuff masel. It aye leas me feelin starved." on page 15
e ceilin rose wi its sculpted leas, harps an shamrocks, ower a w on page 48

2 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
An leas the beach anew. on page 50

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
t ïf a man's brither dees an leas a guidwife wi nae weans, then on page 104

1 matches

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