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Meanings of lallans in English

A dialect of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland.

        Term that was traditionally used to refer to the Scots language as a whole.

              Synonyms
              Examples for "scots"
              Examples for "scots"
              1
              Scots, for example, offer free higher education, unlike the rest of Britain.
              Reuters
              2
              However, Mr Salmond said Scots had everything to gain by voting yes.
              BBC
              3
              You're doing the 'English fear of the Scots drinking' number, aren't you?
              Report for Murder
              4
              Clearly, he went on, the problem with Gordon would be two Scots.
              A journey: my political life
              5
              You Scots are hard in the head, but soft in the disposition.
              Love Stories
              Usage of lallans in English
              1
              Hech, then, I'm a'thegither a negative teacher, as they ca' it in the new lallans.
              Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
              2
              It is a West Germanic language which is derived from, and has its closest linguistic parallels with, Lowland Scots or Lallans.
              The Irish Times
              3
              It is a variant, wrote its secretary some time ago, a variant of the language spoken today in the Lowlands of Scotland, often called Lallans.
              The Irish Times
              Frequent collocations
              Lallans through the time