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One often sees warnings against writing in dialect, but it works in passages like this, from William McIlvanney's 1977 novel Laidlaw: "Ma lassie's missin'"
Archive 2010-03-01 Peter Rozovsky 2010
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I couldn't be happier was I to grow another eye, one that shines in the night like a wolf's eye and can twist on its stalk to look up a lassie's skirt.
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"Thanks to the wee lassie's thought about the letter."
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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"Well, my mother told me I'd be some lassie's choice one fine day."
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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His pals asked what had happened and he replied "If you must know, it got broken while I was fighting for a lassie's honour".
miss-k2 Diary Entry miss-k2 2007
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A bonnie lassie's greetin 'though she tries to stay the tears,
My Ain Folk 1998
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That's the lassie's fanny pads you're in at there.
Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997
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Minimum force, the lassie's worst injury would have been the fright she got.
Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997
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He had sent the wee bondmaid with Ian as well, thinking the brisk fall air might bring a bit of color to the lassie's face.
Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997
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He plunged it right in tae yon bonnie lassie's hairt
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