A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lesley'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lesleyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6155
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 50.6 11 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 lesley 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

McLachlan, Jack Glessheids maun wale guid neebors tae thole the dreich Scottish climate, (University of Maine 2019) Central - Ceres, prose
Dr Lesley Lancaster, frae the Varsitie
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
y spoke tae her. Her name wis Lesley Ann Bain by loadsa folk calle on page 126
we had a minutes' silence fur Lesley Ann; ah tried no tae look at on page 127
ma ma an da wor talkin aboot Lesley Ann. Ma ma said, Widyi make a on page 129
been charged in connection w; Lesley Ann's death. Ma da said, Serv on page 130

11 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
k at. Ower the past few years Lesley Riddoch, in her gey intrestin on page 29

1 matches

General Central

Macdonald, Ileene Fit’s it aa aboot?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
wur voices again. A pynt that Lesley Riddoch maks: ‘…the wider
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
@LATraynor Totally brill Lesley, made up for youse! x(2020)