Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'leddy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

leddy	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	8.7	29	11
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	5.8	1	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	9.8	3	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	13.3	3	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	26.8	11	4
WCE - West Central	4.4	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	11.8	9	3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
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 leddy 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.

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
deid, bit shü wis a faersome leddy, an ruled da roost, baith oot on page 4

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
shut its dowp feathers like a leddy clickin her fan, an craiked e
her roch edges, makk mair o a leddy ooto her.
e tae learn tae behave like a leddy an nae like a dray-horse, an
3 matches

General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
cawin fur a nurse whin a leddy doctor cum in an stertit spei
bonnie ner scuddie-happit leddy in hoaspital. Ma face wis ble
iz. A leddy bein waitit on.
3 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Forby his ither leddy-friens. He canna bear the hea on page 9

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 67 - Leddy Stair’s Closse, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Leddy Stair, cled as leddy's maid, on page 141

6 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
A lent it tae a leddy ,
For ony leddy 's hire.
2 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
leddy delicate platefus. An there w
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Nine Fragments - III, (Lowdown-L 2009) Central - Central, prose
orra thing tae see wi aa the leddy -like fantoushery she wis busk
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
Morgan 'The Hell's-handsel o Leddy Macbeth' (1.5.16-55). Aw in a on page 116

1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Maist lucky leddy... me? I'm but on page 18
For Veillonella, leddy o disdain. on page 46

2 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Leddy o the Xiang Watter on page 19
for thinkin lang on Ma Leddy, see, A daurna tell on page 21
e bindwuid, ay, beltit wi the leddy-fern on page 29

6 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
"Leddy Muck here, ower guid fir the on page 66

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
sweet leddy o' th' rose intercede oan ma on page 54

1 matches