Lallans

American  

[lal-uhnz] / ˈlæl ənz /

plural noun

1. the Lowlands of Scotland.

2. the inhabitants of the Scottish Lowlands.

3. (used with a singular verb) the literary form of the English dialect of the Scottish Lowlands, representing a mixture of the several spoken subdialects.

---

Lallans British  

/ ˈlælənz, ˈlælən /

noun

1. a literary version of the variety of English spoken and written in the Lowlands of Scotland

2. (modifier) of or relating to the Lowlands of Scotland or their dialects

---

Etymology

Origin of Lallans

Scottish variant of _Lowlands

Example Sentences

The actor Bill Paterson described him as "the last link with that generation who could reproduce and really understand the Lallans: his death marks the end of an era."

From The Guardian • Apr. 20, 2010

Impenetrable at first, Lallans becomes readable after a little practice, and the reader stumbles through even such sheep-pasture poetry as: "Meantime the doitit gomerils sat,/ the hinnie-darlin mamma's pets/and gowpt like gowks."

From Time Magazine Archive

But his most bravely brandished weapon is Lallans, a braw dialect of lowland Scots, little known today to Scots who are not classicists, or at least poets.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now and again the barnyard Lallans breaks into a lilt: "I'm the darlin o the Muses wi their clarsachs soondan sweet, and o Pan, the skeely piper wi the dansan horny feet ..."

From Time Magazine Archive

Young is not above throwing foreign phrases into his Lallans: "He's a richt pukka sahib, your maister."

From Time Magazine Archive