A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lil'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lilOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9133
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 1
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
SEA - South East (Borders) 48.4 4 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 lil in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
er, bit in a boatie caad Rosy Lil, wi dizzens o roses peintit r
maist important member o Rosy Lil’s crew wis Birly, the boati
Ilkie evenin he steered Rosy Lil
teetle the sides o Rosy Lil on the lang simmer nichts.
Rosy Lil wis fleggit. “Birly Wheelâ€
9 matches

South East (Borders)

Stevenson, Gerda Cat Wumman: Tales O Nine Lives - The Witch, (Luath 2025 ISBN: 978-1804252420) Central - Peebles, prose
souch, like she wis wandert: 'Lil!' on page 43

3 matches

@Woodwinecoolers tweeted
an1 Morning Bella, aye it's a lil bit nippy oot there ???? (2022) twitter link

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