A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'leit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
leitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5156
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 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 35.2 7 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
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 leit in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
n he aye pit hissell inti the leit. The men felt
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
ut i the Scots?! He gies us a leit o what dis exist; an the wee- on page 116

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
n the airlie pages, the’r a leit o interviewees, at includes s
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
ts Wrytars" an the "Lallans'" leit o wirds wes follaed whaur pos on page 10

1 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
gil Transferable Vote, Pertie Leit (whilk can be run in twa weys
The Pertie Leit seestems warrandyces parfit P
n whar ilk bodie cumms on the leit o preference, an, wi siccan g
the vote is pitten aff o the leit an thi ir a forder vote a puk
owk disna see hou the saicont leit is upmakkit.
7 matches

General Central

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
cawgie. There they had a lang leit o aw the leids spoken in the on page 10

2 matches

Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ir place gets filled frae the leit like we ken it frae Halieruid
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
humbrian) disnae hae a muckle leit o scrievit tradeetion gan bac(2020)