Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lyne'

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Use in varieties of Scots

lyne	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	7.4	24	7
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	49	15	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	10.9	1	1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	10.1	4	2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	1
SEA - South East (Borders)	25	2	2
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 lyne in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
auf wuly up we wer feish, thi lyne wid gin licht eis sumthin wei on page 11
eih doo an we jeyn't thi lang lyne a fowk tryen tae get en, fyle on page 39
al gin an get ma Ripper's an Lyne." We at, we aw jumpit abort, on page 46
hee weis haulen baak up hee's lyne, we a mukkul smirk on on page 56
an we wid hay tae haul up wer lyne's eis qwik eis we cood, cus a on page 57
Also on pages 60
15 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
riet Jeems Buchan fae Banks o Lyne. An Gavin's mither looked eft on page 18

1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
n ma first day. We stuid in a lyne wi aw the proud mithers, ilka
he fowk cuid jyne the saicont lyne an daunce ti rags an bougies
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
icht Atoore the Face, A Daurk Lyne o Fir Trees an the eponymous
t's mind. In his poem A Daurk Lyne o Fir Trees, TSL descrives a
2 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
o 1996 it wes patent that the lyne o the heich heid anes in Embr on page 121

2 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
In'tae the Lyne ye rin on page 19

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
hev been buirit i the direck lyne atween the front and back yet
1 matches