A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lans'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lansOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7157
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 37.7 6 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of lans in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
he photie slips fae ma lap an lans wi a dull thud on the carpet on page 22

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Aa the lans o Leddrach Minnie cud see fra
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
o the braid blae sea, far she lans wi a meikle splash. An she's
d like fine tae veesit furran lans afore she dees. I'd bet she'd
2 matches

Findlater, Mark , (no publisher recorded 2022) Doric - Troup, government
Keep it weel and hud tae your lans
1 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
gin that I needit til ... my lans, my gear, my richts as herito on page 10

2 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Gowden Gate Til Samarkan, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, poetry
O shups, starns, lans whaur ligg guid callants braw on page 30

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
en pushed oot fae the Tibetan lans that were kept be the Chinese
tak ye through bluid-drenched lans that had ne’er recovert fae
born a wumman in the Excludit Lans, ye hae only twa chyces: resi
gage. Here i thir puir barren lans, there wis at least a wonnerf
gage. Here i thir puir barren lans, there wis at least a wonnerf
6 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Ye neednae gan' tae foreign lans, on page 56

1 matches

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