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The word 'lightsome'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lightsomeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.61210
ORK - Orkney 59.6 6 5
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 5
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 lightsome 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

Miller, Alison Gallows Ha - Bairns Sang, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
No lightsome lad will merry haer. on page 14

1 matches

Skea, Bessie Gallows Ha - Earth-bound, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Sheu will not keep my lightsome lad, my luv that is not true! on page 18

1 matches

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
Hid is lightsome for John, I will say that, on page 39

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
He's a lightsome peedie fulloo, wi a twinkle i on page 50

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Haer wark's more lightsome than mine on page 103

1 matches

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
irkin doon at the banks wis a lightsome piece in the summer time, wae
1 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
lightsome as a lass, opens sweet to yur on page 23

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
is Brian an Chloe an dir tree lightsome bairns, da English fokk at's on page 7
gs as you gude by. It wis dat lightsome. on page 15

2 matches

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
braaly busy day, an everyeen lightsome, wi da better wadder, an it w
1 matches

Watt, Valerie A faersome feerie, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“Da steer o da bairns is lightsome,” I telt him. “Even if de
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ck flyin ower da garden was a lightsome treat when puttin Apollo oot (2013)

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