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The word 'lossie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lossieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
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 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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 lossie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
said at ere's a rare site it Lossie." on page 46
"Firget Lossie - NEEST STOP LANZAROTE!" on page 47

2 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
@aberdeentaxi1 The Firth in Lossie. Food wis fine(2020)
Nae been ti Lossie in sic a lang time. It's a bo(2020)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
liant wirk A ken yer deein at Lossie. (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Tae Leith and Lossie, London, Lowestoft, on page 92

1 matches

General Central

McCabe, Mary Lallans 73 - Soond shift, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
A Lossie chiel at hud his wits aboot h on page 49

1 matches

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