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The word 'nance'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nanceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.792
ORK - Orkney
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 85.4 8 1
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of nance in Corpus

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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
a, he smiled tae himsel, frae Nance McKerrow, the auld besom, wha on page 50
himsel tae win back hame tae Nance's cothous, whaur twa terrifie on page 52
e brose an bannocks that auld Nance had laid afore him when he go on page 53
didnae fash himsel aboot auld Nance. She wis gey doitit onywey, a on page 54
ae Sorn an see her guid frien Nance Park, in the service o Mistre on page 67
Also on pages 69, 72
8 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
sheep an the flooers maitcer nance? Is this no a muckler maitter on page 29

1 matches

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