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The word 'lanesome'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lanesomeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.92917
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 65.5 5 3
LAL - General Central 13.3 10 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of lanesome in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
k tae the altar. Neil hid bin lanesome, raised in Glesga, syne reloc
gin he wis honest, fur twis a lanesome darg in his executive eyrie l
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
n the parks, he wis still his lanesome. Haillerackit advised him tae
like tae think on ye here yer lanesome,” quo Deirdre.
2 matches

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
"But it's aat fell lanesome here!" Ailice said in a dowie on page 68

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 57 - Twa Auld Men, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
docken-strewn, wind-blastit, lanesome path. Ye wad think they wad h on page 136

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
it wey frae the heich toun: a lanesome doungate at the faraway side
on had gart her barricade her lanesome hoose.
2 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
k still leevin, he begins the lanesome wark o pilin deid bodies oan on page 9

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
et an read it oot tae her: My lanesome exile is brichtent for a wee
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
A lanesome boat; a carlie's hat o strae, on page 19

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
the distance, sittin dowf an lanesome on a wee fiat stane, an as th on page 44

2 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
an his thochts; on the lang, lanesome, muirland tracks wi his trust on page 33

1 matches

Neill, Willie Lallans 59 - Christian Henry Divertimento, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
I saa it sink in thir watters lanesome, on page 10

1 matches

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 74 - Thof nae a rigmarie hae I, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
There’s a lanesome leuk aboot his ee – feggs,
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
breithered bi their luve, the lanesome frost on page 72

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
d at lang an last. 'It is gey lanesome in the desert.' on page 60

2 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 102 - Editorial: Jean Tamson’s Bairns, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
ut ayont the roustit yetts. A lanesome muin hings abuin Auld Reekie on page 7

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
story aboot an eildit wumman, lanesome in the routine o her dreich l on page 60

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
An at the lest gangs lanesome doun the brae. on page 9
The lanesome muir an dinsome cities thrang on page 63
Unchancie brings its lanesome wae, on page 80

3 matches

Cameron, Peter Lallans 58 - Naebody’s Rose, (Lallans Magazine 2021) Central, poetry
The yae lanesome day on page 49

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
o bricht objects hingin ower lanesome roads. No lang efter, in 1850
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
She'll sloom the lanesome oors awa, till a new dawn pen on page 20

1 matches

Tindal, Betty Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Noo lanesome winter's awa wi't, on page 159

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Wi thon lanesome stane on page 53

1 matches

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