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The word 'islan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
islanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.4188
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of islan in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
ed doun. A’ll be missan the islan lift: i the city, thir’s le
1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 73 - Obituary for David Ogston, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
in a ruint abbey on Inchcolm Islan, the ootcum wes eimaginative on page 12

1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
traivellt space on the ae sma islan. The muckler bouk o Englan, t
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Tha mair it haes nae islan, on page 23
Braid Islan fowks he loved owre ocht on page 73

2 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Lef oor wee islan an heided tae France, on page 29

1 matches

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