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The word 'dane'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
daneOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus17.55614
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 58.9 18 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 59.3 5 2
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 721.8 23 3
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 dane in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ill hid tae be fed, hoosewark dane, fires mendit, an the byre ma
left tae cut an the stookin's dane. Race ye back doon the hill a
runt or a nicher like an ayld dane shelt. His wife, Molly wis ro
inno a baa, bit it hid tae be dane if they winted socks or ganzi
said her prayer, 'Thy Will be dane', an lay doon wi Betsy in her
6 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
the mull, an parentin cud be dane bi either sex – whasaeiver
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
“Soinething’ll hae tae be dane aboot these
e the schule feelin rale hard dane till. Miss Buchan, his teache
dearie me na, fur gin ye’d dane yon, he wad bite ye wi
ther tales aboot fit they’d dane afore
wee bizzim. She’s niver dane girnin.”
5 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
@joctibeet brawly dane loon I'll gie ye a bosie!(2014)
berdeenCC cooncil workers hiv dane aat Victoria Gairden Park wi (2017)
Well dane - you made it tae peyday! ht(2019)
nnie floeers aat #Boddam well dane tae fa iver pluntit tham. htt(2019)
smashed the pie record: well dane, bit fit a number o pies tae (2019)
and 1 other occurrences.

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
encia in 1957. Sic damage was dane tae baith the Valencian fowk on page 3
der intae France. This can be dane bi car or bi takin a bus fae on page 5

2 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
; but ere was naething tae be dane aboot aat at his time o life. on page 26

1 matches

Uri, Antonia North East filmmakker feart for the futur o Doric, (Doric Future 2019) Doric, blog
but howps tae get the film aa dane in the new ‘ear. Then, she
1 matches

Uri, Antonia Here's the problem wi the trad wife muivement, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
els as minorities fa are hard dane bi. Fan, in reality, they are
1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
dane mainner at is a faither’s r
1 matches

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
at wit his group eh pals wurr dane. There was wan eh his pals st
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Lucy Lock Doon, (Greenock Telegraph 2021) Central - Greenock, poetry
Dane homework in ma jammies, ave n
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
pil as the Tuscan. It isna as dane as the Dorik, bot hes the lik on page 13

1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Motherwell dane his field wark amang the wabs on page 69

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2022) Central
he needfu. The SCMA secretary Dane Love gied a deserved thankye

@jack_capener tweeted
! There's neist tae nowt bein dane at the moment fir Scots, but (2018)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
er haun, whit the fuck he hae dane, is inexcusable! As a faither(2020)
Barpaga Ye are the woman! Wee dane and wish ye aa’ the best!! ?(2020)
white_vision Braw goal!! Weel dane, Big Dunc! ????????????????(2020)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
An noo the tale is dane, on page 6
ed rin at the stick agane, an dane a cope-carly in ite hurry tae on page 42
Yit yae dane a cope-carly in at the dorr - on page 47
Haes dane mae the rest o mae life." on page 48
tae open hir mooth; but shae dane it at last, an managed tae sw on page 51
Also on pages 53, 73, 74, 79, 81, 87, 90, 102, 108, 109, 113
20 matches

Reynolds, Charlie Tak pride in yer ain tongue, (North Antrim Speak 2009) Ulster - Coleraine, blog
t taak a luk at onythin thats dane in tha name o Ulster Scots an
1 matches

Gillen, Charles Oot Here Mae Lane, (Words without Borders Magazine 2004) Ulster, prose
n tae quit, for I'm naw joost dane yit, I can
1 matches

Gillen, Charles Whun A’ The Kye Had Names, (Ullans Press 2005) Ulster, poetry
l’ men proud o’ whut they dane, they know’d aboot the lan.
1 matches

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