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The word 'shan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
shanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3106
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 9.8 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 31 5 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
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 shan in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
h find masel feelin genuinely shan as fuck. on page 153

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
ny day. The twa o them were a shan combination, Davie thocht. Th on page 91

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 67 - Clash fae Cauld Hill, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
ten poems bi Han Shan on page 39

2 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Mibbe its shan to yarn on about Evans for ag
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
s in the futehills o the Tien Shan afore the vertical left thaim
nd that opened up in the Tien Shan when the
it the icy peens o the Kunlun Shan aye towert tae the sooth. Thi
postglacial uplans o the Tien Shan, than northwart again wis the
4 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
aboot yer job. That's really shan. ?? Cheer yersel up by giein (2020)