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The word 'luvely'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
luvelyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.895
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 luvely in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ing shoppin. Ah bocht masel a luvely trooser suit it Harrod's fin on page 70

1 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
lor i'm like the bad penny ma luvely....I aye turn up :) Thankyou (2011)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
entleman brian - youd make a luvely santa xx (2020) twitter link
ghLive_ c - mr p - santas a luvely guy lol (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
Endin their luvely laund's lang loss and theft o on page 19
Alane, by the luvely gravel bank, wattered on page 55
Luvely boy. on page 136

3 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
mune, nae tae mention oor ain luvely wumman.' on page 14

2 matches

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