A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lye'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lyeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.583
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 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 lye in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
coorse on hands raeddened bae lye soap. on page 117

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Grieve, Issy Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
The tap paets, lye, chequered, rectangles, on he on page 60

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
y ah walked oot o Copland and Lye in it. on page xvii
cin and workin in Copland and Lye, but ah never get tired o lis on page 26
gettin a joab in Copland and Lye. on page 53
ar it somewhere. Copeland and Lye is where ah bought it anyway. on page 54
ah gat ma job in Copland and Lye. Many a mickle makes a muckle on page 75
Also on pages 81
6 matches

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