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The word 'takan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
takanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3104
ORK - Orkney 49.7 5 3
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 175.8 5 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 takan in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
takan good fae the corn, on page 25

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
jist regress, takan hids time... on page 11
takan hids turn. on page 22

2 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
the Ha turns oan hur heel an takan the ootside line tae avoid th on page 86

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
takan photos o the Cathedral, on page 137

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
An so she went on, takan first wan side an then e ithe on page 34
tly smockan a long hookah, an takan no e smallest notice o her or on page 40
sade till hersel, an began by takan e peedie golden key, an unloc on page 73
ome on!" cried e Gryphon, an, takan Alice by e han, id hurried of on page 103
l soon found an opportunity o takan id aweiy. She did id so quick on page 105

5 matches

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