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The word 'graan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
graanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7158
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 83 7 3
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
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 graan in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
chanced on the Palio - fit a graan spectacle! (2021) twitter link
@OorVyce that wis graan, yer roon table. A bonnie gai (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 77 - Whaur Gadie Rins, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
but lattin on there was gaed graan exerceese tae the dog an was on page 55

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
guson Newman; ye're mebbe his graan-sin; but nivver in a hunner e on page 80

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
'But she's a graan worker. It wis aboot a year a on page 38
the Jerries had deen a richt graan job that nicht. Nummer 11 Mar on page 45

2 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 79 - The Bonnie Lintie, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
becam keerious aboot faar es graan soun was comin fae. Than, he on page 26

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 73 - The Bigger Hoose, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
"He maun be a graan boss tae wurk for," says I. on page 105

1 matches

Leslie, Dawn Press and Journal 2023-12-02 - Doric Corner, (no publisher recorded 2023) Doric, newspaper
re o medical issues. Wi hid a graan Christmas Day, follaed by, a
1 matches

General Northern

Reid, Adeline Tales Fae The Doric Side - A Clootie Duff, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
ny an they've turn't oot jist graan on page 20

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
llaston's sittin ticht in his graan new hoose oot the road there. on page 8

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
he thocht it wad be faar mair graan tae hae a claver wi a rael Qu on page 29

1 matches

@glenlivetloon tweeted
Donaldson @bbcthesocial Fit a graan wee video! Hiv tae say, I rea(2020)

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
r meanin, wi context bein aw. Graan fir puns. https://t.co/ERZYgf(2020)
texts tae stairt, bit noo A'm graan. https://t.co/0WhhvSoLS7(2020)