Lallanadj.n.
/ˈlalən/, U.S. /ˈlɑlən/, Scottish English /ˈlalən/ Scottish.
A. adj.
Belonging to the Lowlands of Scotland.
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Scots1533
Scottish1559
Scotch1633
Scotic1647
Lowland Scots1724
lowland1752
Lallan1786
1786 R. Burns Poems 61 But a' your doings to rehearse..Wad ding a' Lallan tongue, or Erse, In Prose or Rhyme.
1791 A. Wilson Laurel Disputed ii. 21 Far aff our gentles for their poets flew, An' scorn'd to own that lallan sangs they knew.
B. n.
(Now usually Lallans.) The Lowland Scottish dialect; esp., in modern use, a revived and modifed form of the spoken dialect as a literary language.
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Scots1494
Scotch1612
Lallan1786
Lowland Scots1792
lowland1822
Kelvinside1903
1786 R. Burns Poems 214 They..spak their thoughts in plain, braid Lallans.
1887 R. L. Stevenson Memories & Portraits vi. 99 I translate John's Lallan, for I cannot do it justice, being born Britannis in montibus.
1946 M. Lindsay Mod. Sc. Poetry 18 It is largely under MacDiarmid's influence..that the younger poets, especially those who use Gaelic and Scots (or Lallans, as I prefer to call their Scots, drawing more, as it does, upon middle Scots) have developed.
1947 D. Young Plastic Scots 3 As it is convenient to have some term of distinction for that part of Scottish literature which is written in Braid Scots or Anglic, to refer to it separately from Scots literature written in Gaelic, English, Latin, or any other tongue, I suggest ‘Lallans’, adopting the term of Robert Burns.
1959 Glasgow Herald 29 May 8 Lallans is an artificial plaything of frustrated xenophobes.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVI. 410/1 Hugh MacDiarmid,..the most prominent exponent of Lallans, achieved an international reputation, but the Lallans revival has faded.
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