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The word 'laan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
laanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.895
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
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)
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 laan in Corpus

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Orkney

Harris, Jane Me Laand, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Laan har man hid bowt
The claas o the laan
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
vin thoo eit blaw's aff o thi laan eit Buchanness, eit wis kint on page 46
tae fae doon fae thi stem an laan ona thi tap oma. Lukuly he we on page 56
och wis handie couse yea cood laan Roonder's an steil get a nay on page 60
get eit least anuff feish tae laan. A nivver haired fae thi lad on page 62

4 matches

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
sang fae anither pairt o the laan, by Gavin Stevenson, gies a r on page 37

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
rols sent oot tae spy oot the laan an mebbe tak back a prisoner
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
Sall a laan be born in ae day? on page 81

1 matches

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