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The word 'blaan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
blaanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3107
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 34.9 6 5
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 42 4 2
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 blaan in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
ooks laek efter da caandle is blaan oot, for shö couldna mind ev on page 13
laeves at wis blaan doon aff o da trees an settle on page 124

2 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
dan shü wis furt, lack ta be blaan aff a her feet, an strugglin on page 34

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
StE: De'r a aafil lok o fools blaan in wi da aesterly, A'm even s on page 106

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
ahint wis. Wan day da rod is blaan ta smiddereens. At history's on page 96

1 matches

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
tter as da caald, fresh, wind blaan trow his slicht, hair and owe
1 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
e injin room, the neist ye're blaan inti the sea that's twa degre on page 44

1 matches

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 79 - The Tattiebogle, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
is warld as sure as if they'd blaan his heid aff. An there were t on page 15

2 matches

Strachan, Shane Standing Stone, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2016) Doric, prose
doorstep and a few trees have blaan owre onto ma road – nithing
1 matches

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