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The word 'loesome'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
loesomeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.581
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 22.2 5 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 1
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 loesome in Corpus

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General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
Your loesome smirk maan seerly hail on page 7
n, Ailice wi her airms twynit loesome-like roun the Faan's saft cra on page 46
"Is he nae a loesome sicht?" said Deedledum. on page 57
ndum o't, gin ye like-She's a loesome kynlie craiturie," he ranit q on page 97

5 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Five sonnets o Cecco Angiolieri (1250-1319), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Ye're loesome raelly - No wi you the day, on page 45

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 59 - A Stot an a Cleg, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central, prose
An that, my loesome deems, I can uptak.
An syne ye tell your loesome deems that weel
2 matches

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