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Meanings of lallans in inglês

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"
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Scots, for example, offer free higher education, unlike the rest of Britain.
Reuters
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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
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Clearly, he went on, the problem with Gordon would be two Scots.
A journey: my political life
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You Scots are hard in the head, but soft in the disposition.
Love Stories
Usage of lallans in inglês
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Hech, then, I'm a'thegither a negative teacher, as they ca' it in the new lallans.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography
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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