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The word 'readan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
readanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3106
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 3
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 140.7 4 2
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 4.4 1 1
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 readan in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
andad wis sittan by the stove readan the paper. He looked up at me on page 129

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
ign o sometheen unkan. A cat, readan a map. For a peedie meenit, M
cat in his mirror. Noo it wis readan the sign that said Privet Dri
2 matches

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
y hairst the ither day. I wis readan a article aboot changes in th

North Northern B (Caithness)

Manson, John Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Doric - Dumfries, poetry
I wis readan at the time on page 115

1 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
intill e book her sister wis readan, but id hedna pictures or fou on page 7
ried look at e Queen, who wis readan e list o singers. on page 109
s o hers at ee hev joost been readan aboot; an, when she hed finis on page 119

3 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 58 - twa poems bi George Hardie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - Hamilton, poetry
readan frae the ancient beuk on page 41

1 matches

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