A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'lanes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lanesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.31110
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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 lanes in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Smootie gengs ta Lerrick, (SCOTS corpus 2003) Shetland - Bressay, weans
Street, checkin da names o da lanes is shö gud. Burns Lane......
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
selt it aa roon the wynds an lanes an streets o the stoory toun.
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
in middle road, blocking both lanes & sat through 3 light changes(2017)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
u for real - clear the cycle lanes/pavements before the roads - (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
erstuid that statistics their lanes disna mak muckle sense tae, o
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
And veesitit upon the lanes and wynds o this laund, on page 138

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
It's twae auld kirks and lanes askew on page 14
The wee back lanes, white frosted trees on page 38

2 matches

Purves, David Lallans 75 - Gie Us Back Oor Place Names, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Southern, prose
s, avenues, crescents, hills, lanes an parks. In St Andrews, the
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
uin, ablo, athort an ben thir lanes on page 11

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
e wee narrow back streets and lanes through the old town. It’s
1 matches

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