A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lied'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
liedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51511
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of lied 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.

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
rats. Why, Maggie? Why? They lied at the trial, iverywan except on page 21

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
oor, wi da bucket a coarn spülied aboot her, whin shü didna co on page 5
fillin up again. Finally shü lied, on page 21
verything'll be fine,' Maggie lied, "Ah'll ... ah'll be back in on page 34

3 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ons aboot weys tae forder the lied. Gin ye're a teacher wi exper
1 matches

West Central

@MizLiot tweeted
SICK o seeing my country get lied tae an then taen for a fool. (2021) twitter link
my country - Scotland - be lied tae by Westminster (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
He lied untae us all!
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
A've hud ma hole. A've never lied aboot it. A pulled an elder b on page 6

1 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Mouse Eat Mouse World, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
lied ohne worte
1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
ale truth tae the lad A wance lied tae; on page 6
, now wouldn't you rather A'd lied? on page 56

2 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
"Aye," Violet lied, "I think they're dead intere on page 85

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
V That's not true for me, she lied about something to try and en(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ent. That fae a party wha hae lied tae the Queen, parliament, th(2021)

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