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The word 'lowlands'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
lowlandsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.3115
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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 12.2 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of lowlands in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
ribati (Gilbertese), Lallans (Lowlands Scotland) / lallans (Lowlands on page 8

2 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
been aa airgied throu on the Lowlands-L mailin list an can be dounl
irgyment can be traced in the Lowlands-L archives.
On pittin this list up on the Lowlands-L mailin list for comments, i
Lowlands-L Mailing List Archive: http:
erv.linguistlist.org/archives/lowlands-l.html (discussion group for
5 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
acobite rebellion o 1745, fae Lowlands an Highlands baith, were heir on page 61

1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
terally, “the English o the Lowlands”, whaurby Gallta (“Lowlan
”, whaurby Gallta (“Lowlands”) has a saicont meanin o
2 matches

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