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The word 'cran'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
cranOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7199
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 2
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 69.7 5 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 cran in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Gowden Gate Til Samarkan, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, poetry
snashers, an the lang-nebbed cran, on page 32

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Intae the Snaw, (Gatehouse Press 2015 ISBN: 978-0992857370) Central, poetry
Noo ah retour, lik a cran frae oot the east, on page 15

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
"Tummle the cran in the sea!" cried the Mock T on page 44

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
opeen of the ravynis gart the cran crope, the huddit crauis cryi on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
A Cran for Grannie on page 69
-up, Mr Kranky telephoned the Cran Company and spiered them tae on page 70
e were twa men inside it. The cran men sclimmed up on tae the ro on page 71

6 matches

solonggaybowser Merlin's Bairns, (archiveofourown.org 2020) Central, prose
"Dinnae hark him, Cran-Cran! Ye'r the anely ane that kin
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
A singil cran flies late ti reist.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
E FINNESTON GRAN O Finnieston Cran on page 77

5 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
"This is a cantilever, an the cran' its oor here." on page 43

1 matches

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