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The word 'saand'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
saandOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4137
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 75.6 13 7
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
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 saand in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
a sea, some bairns hockin ida saand wi widden speds, dan a raa o on page 21
He's up in his cuddy whin da saand is aa dry on page 105

2 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
him an buried his boadie i da saand. Bit fock got ta hear aboot d on page 15

1 matches

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
atween dy teeth lik saand sprittin doon an ooerglass. I on page 14
e hadd o dy mindin; noo, weet saand is aa de bruks o maettir dat on page 28

2 matches

Nicholson, Hannah Eemis Stane 1 - Dance o da Selkies, (Eemis Stane 2022) Shetland, poetry
An it warms da saand an'under wir feet on page 14

1 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
t canna be coontit, laek air, saand, birse. Collective nouns is d on page 48
hin at canna be coontit, laek saand or oo, an abstract tings laek on page 49

3 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
trowe pale saand, green-gless sea; on page 38

1 matches

De Luca, Christine St Ninian's Isle, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, poetry
is hit kissed da sheenin saand; a smush
1 matches

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
Soond! Dey're comin in apo da Saand! Dey're here!’
1 matches

Isbister, Sonny Caves aroond Shetland, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
e! Dey waalkit right along da saand until dey got dir eye on anid
1 matches

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