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The word 'loan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
loanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.44322
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 35.4 8 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 25.6 10 5
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire 91.7 7 1
LAL - General Central 12 9 8
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of loan in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
cubs yesterday aroond Gressy Loan(2020)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
Hancock needed tae go oot on loan, bad luck Coulson got wiped o (2022) twitter link
he opportunity tae develop on loan (2022) twitter link
if itÂ’s a signing or even a loan tae buy I wid be excited - t (2022) twitter link
Cagliari wanting Ferguson on loan with obligation tae buy? Appa (2022) twitter link
- I think he wid be a great loan signing, a boy hungry tae imp (2021) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.

@beast_afc tweeted
tae go we Scot ower Watkins. Loan boy(2020)
r this? Some saying edmondson loan is done ana.(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e quid and sixty pence crisis loan. Then, there's this middle ea on page 124
e worry though, man. Yince ma loan comes through ah'll throw you on page 134
"The loan shark?" ah ask. on page 179

3 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Here, mannie, gie yer pal a loan,
A dauner doon the Common Loan,
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 117, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
h kip, the kye rowting on the loan, the hay lying in the swathe,
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
n the brae tae the quait Kirk Loan, the raw o aicht hooses staun
²liss comes skirlin doun Kirk Loan, Mr Mack geeglin an nicherin
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
pper ae nicht, stopped at the loan-heid for a bit twa haundit cr
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
the burra the noo near hercus loan - onybuddy ken where jake mo (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The best rate fir whit loan we'll tak - on page 38
Wi the oaffir o a personal loan on page 141

2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
overty an beggin fur a crisis loan tae paiy his bills. His reque
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ckin thing. Took oot a Provie loan fur it an aw. Fuckin five hun
da’s still payin the provie loan.’
2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
n the saxth o Mey on Mauchlin Loan, in companie wi fower ither m on page 47
ruikedbank as security agin a loan o 1700 merks frae William Ros on page 79
e stert peyin aff Wull Ross's loan as shuin as he cuid efter the on page 80

7 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
took for ludgins on Stolyarni Loan, oot tae the street an, slow on page 133
Passin up the Canon' Loan on page 141

2 matches

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Doon lane, cross loan, throu moonlit lea, on page 11

1 matches

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
re Graeco-Latin an, therefir, loan wirds baith til Scots an Engl on page 34

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
then tae Squarego Savins and Loan, and then tae Flyman Financia on page 62

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
hur down, thankin hur fur the loan o hur laptop. Ah cannae blame on page 92

1 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
e linked tae signing messi on loan?(2014)

@g_hibby tweeted
tyres... Got tae take a bank loan oot... ????? (2023) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
rsley, o nummer fower, Privet Loan, were prood tae say that they (2017) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Loan yonner, i Hawick. Hei wis oot
1 matches

@jamie_ginger tweeted
ry aboot trying ti get up the loan.#rubberpusswillbeoot#mortal(2012)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
arnaptious an I'll gie ye the loan! http://t.co/JFI0chPzY3 (2015) twitter link