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The word 'solan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
solanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 3
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
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 solan in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
@bluekirkhope Peur auld Solan (2021) twitter link

Shetland

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
If I set aff wi da Solan, or gied ta da far Haaf on page 47

1 matches

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
refully Mansie watched, lik a solan, fir da perfect wave tae tak
1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Bonxies, solan geese, draatsi, yul-girs and (2013)
e days where you can hear the solan/gannet dive fae half a mile a(2020)
both but it's da Norie oer da Solan for me.(2020)
3rd beach done. Da Solan's bill never fails to impress(2018)

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e joyous cries O sea~-mews an solan geese as they soared abune li on page 31

1 matches

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