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The word 'meanan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
meananOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6123
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 281.3 8 1
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
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 meanan in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
e a staen tae mak thaim intae meanan. on page 30
, draeman O cities, draeman o meanan more. Or draeman a love fer a on page 38
eussan no tae mynd, seean the meanan o the lunt in Darling's een, on page 48

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Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
the word ‘backend’ bit no meanan ‘hairst’ exactly, more la

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
sade e Eaglet. "A dinna ken e meanan o half those long words, an, on page 25
who wis beginnan till see ids meanan. on page 50
ade seemed till hev no sort o meanan in id, an yet there wis no do on page 67
eedy lasgies o her age knew e meanan o id at all. However, "jury-m on page 105
dinna believe air's an atom o meanan in id." on page 117

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