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The word 'lib'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
libOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41811
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 12.2 5 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
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 lib in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
the fortunes o the SNP or the Lib Dems, cultural items – furt
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 111, (self-published 2003) Central, newspaper
ce pey any pairt of the 40000 lib borrowed be the magistratis a
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
an, improvisin-like, ad lib,
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
hat is excep Jamie Stone MSP (Lib Dem). Naebody apairt frae him
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
convener, Sir David Steel, is Lib-Dems (2), Lab (1), Con (1) an
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
an whan ye see wha's in it, 2 Lib-Dems, 1 Labour, 1 Conservativ
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
be the sleekit support o the Lib Dems, whause chairge taewards on page 8
is signit bi aw the Labour an Lib-Dem Mps o Scotland at the tim on page 44
the wey o it fer Labour, the Lib-Dems or the Tories. on page 104

3 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
hat Mr Cameron haed uised tae lib the pigs and lambs, wis aa fl
1 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
s tae come, and onieplace the Lib Dems isnae tae the fore as th
nt groups. Yer Labour and yer Lib Dems is fur coat and nae knic
2 matches

General Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ther maitters, reddit mair ad lib. This Notebook has noo vanish on page 69

1 matches

Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ikale Venstre Social Liberals Lib Dems
1 matches

Neil, Gabriel The Green Pairty: Holyrood’s nixt opposition?, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
o-hatit Labour Pairty (an the Lib-Dems? Wha?). It’s a lang we
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Great Divide, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
caws for tactical votin amang Lib Dem, Labour an Tory supporter
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Thon Survation poll..., (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
Lib Dem 3-6%
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
a shiny shite aboot whit the Lib Dems say?(2020)

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