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The word 'nan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus15.95310
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 2
DUN - Dundee 159.3 15 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 31.5 24 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 nan in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
cun-nan on page 28

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
e's wife Mysie, an Jim's wife Nan cam ower tae help wi that nic
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
"We're fur Tir-nan-Og," quo the Sangsters, tho n
nur Brian hid a clue far Tir-nan-Og micht be – bit it soundi
m's Peak, nor Glesga, nor Tir-nan-Og nor Americay, bit it hid b
That she's at aince thon Tir-nan-Og I've dreamed,
Navachitta, the trip tae Tir-nan-Og that she made wi her brith
5 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Biryani an Garlic Nan o it, on page 3758

1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
an stane,” she mumbled. Her nan would’a skelpt her fir that
s bad luck. Hazel swore her nan made up her ain superstitions
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Hungry Nan on page 55
there wuid queue up at Hungry Nan's ilka lunchtime tae get thei on page 56
icbodie gettin seck fae eatin Nan's scran. She wisnae whit ye w on page 57
." He wis a regular at Hungry Nan's an he wis fair daft on her on page 58
aff wha wis sittin ip Hungry Nan's at lunchtime whan the lads on page 60
Also on pages 61
15 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
a shottie," annunced Adom - nan, rasin til hiz feit. Thusgate on page 44

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
d Shuggie, an a whippet cawed Nan that I ken weel, but apairt f on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
* Comhairle nan Eilean Siar on page 3
reivit submeession, Comhairle nan Eilean Siar statit- on page 5
census, apairt frae Comhairle nan Eilean Siar whaur the nummer on page 6
TRACS and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar tuik tent o the t on page 11
obation on behauf o Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Donald Macleod e on page 14
Also on pages 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 22, 26, 32, 38, 41, 59
24 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
tae Eck an Eilidh, Nan an Shug. on page 77

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
g himsel, masel and the great Nan Shepherd @Val_Bold @EU_SSSA @(2020)

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