A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'los'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
losOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.174
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
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 los in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
enes, tae bide in the warld o Los, heich abeen grun. That wye,
re on the grun roon the lan o Los, far the Skreichmakkers bedd
2 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
rtrace, ilkane wes murnin the los o thair
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
wrate ti mak up fur hir nyow los, an redars recogneised it. on page 6

1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
know. Huggsss tae awe at NCIS Los Angeles! xxx(2015)
any chance the writers o NCIS Los Angeles could bring the team (2015)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ebD "cría cuervos y te sacan los ojos": a Spanish proverb (oft(2020)