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The word 'ls'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8169
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 58.1 10 4
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 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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) 71.4 2 2
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ls 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.

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
busy fairm-yard-while da bröls o da kye ida distance wid tak on page 126

1 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
ati'twartrie dæls on page 13
Quhyit pieirieblakk snæls byd on page 19

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
aertit laand, but wi hoidy-höls on page 29

1 matches

Jamieson, Robert Alan Lallans 58 - Eicht poems bi Robert Alan Jamieson, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
Undirkurrints, tydpøls on page 27

2 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
dey set aboot establishin sküls whar da language o instructio on page 15
language o instruction in sküls. on page 16

2 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
lik paddock-stöls apö da nicht. on page 68
genepöls, mair as focal lent or megaby on page 84

2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Ge°D-:LS on page 169

1 matches

General Central

@GMacminto tweeted
Create an initial paittern o Ls & Rs whaur it disna? https:// (2022) twitter link

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
, pointin ower tae tha dort. "ls she breakin thaim teeth in fu on page 24

1 matches

Cromie, Willie Doon tha Wal Raa, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1739905620) Ulster - Ballywalter, prose
us caad. These wur big tang’ls that wus tore aff tha pladdie
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Free Press, wi nae lang'ls on page 60
An wud ye brak yer lang'ls free on page 74

2 matches

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