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The word 'leven'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
levenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.12011
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of leven in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat If I Catch Ye I'll Eat Ye, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ghost wi a bullet, ye'll need leven siller, min!”
y pulled a face. “Eh? Fit's leven siller?”
ne shook her heed at this. “Leven siller is siller that's been
Wully grabbed the leven siller shot and rammed it ham
4 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Tak a trip doon tae Loch Leven on page 186

4 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
Loch Leven's sliver of sheen between the on page 57

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ingstone at 57 Station Court, Leven, Fife, KY8 4RP.
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
Loch Leven, bit of bird watching, me and(2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
up; then she disappeart intae Leven Square. on page 31
we aw met up at the corner ae Leven Square an on page 45
n it doon the street taewards Leven Square. Charlene spent ages t on page 80

3 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Sittin luikin at the sea loch Leven on page 16

1 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
intae the dowie air o Leven's grey stane waas, on page 40

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
He lowps Loch Leven an the Tay on page 22

1 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
lMcF The Bawbee Brig ower the Leven. #fringescots maun hae a life(2016)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
wa frae tha tomb, an toul tha leven possels aa that haed cum aboo on page 111
bak tae Jerusalem, an fun tha leven gethert thegither, an thaim t on page 112

2 matches

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