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The word 'playan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
playanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.5157
ORK - Orkney 129.2 13 6
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 70.3 2 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
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)
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 playan in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Miller, Alison Gallows Ha - Bairns Sang, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
for playan wae the fairies. on page 14

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gallows Ha - The Weather Dance, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
playan hauntanly. on page 28

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Bit I ken ahm cheust playan a game. on page 18
ox numbers, aal set tae start playan the field. on page 42
ight waar than that, They wir playan flyan sassers wi me bonny flo on page 74

3 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Gangs o lambs playan games on page 65

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Crya - playan in the barn, aal the bigger b on page 13

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Then came a whitema playan a fiddle on page 90

3 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Long summers playan bi the burn or the shore on page 42
playan hauntanly. on page 154

2 matches

Parkins, Hazel Lallans 67 - Fower Poems efter Rilke, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Orkney, poetry
he gaed on playan, he lukk'd at her on page 58

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
l in a game o croquet she wis playan against hersel, for iss queer on page 14
All e time they were playan e Queen never left off quarre on page 89

2 matches

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