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The word 'bans'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
bansOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.5375
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
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) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 449.8 32 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bans in Corpus

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General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
?? will be dishin oot massive bans to oor 8 @AberdeenFC players (2020)

(South) East Central

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
nobbery, as an excerpt fae ‘Bans a Killin’ shows:
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
On a beet or bunnle o bans, on page 15

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
A thoosan blue-stane, slatey bans That bak-waash drains. on page 26
O airmit bans. on page 51

2 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
romotional tours bae oor bes' bans, artists, screeveners an' cre on page 8
ion routes tae regional youth bans/curns acroass aa on page 9
hefted, wi' grants maide tae bans, commonity curns, churches, p on page 34
twa wur bans. Hooiniver we ken fae mappin' on page 36
hauf o' thaim bein' bans), tae gie a mixtie o' music a on page 38
Also on pages 39, 41, 42, 43, 44, 48, 49
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