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Lallan, a. and n. Sc.|ˈlælən|
[variant of lowland.]
A. adj. Belonging to the Lowlands of Scotland.
B. n. (Now usu. Lallans.) The Lowland Scotch dialect; esp., in modern use, a revived and modifed form of the spoken dialect as a literary language.
1785Burns Addr. to Deil xix, But a' your doings to rehearse..Wad ding a' Lallan tongue, or Erse, In prose or rhyme. ― To W. Simpson, Postscr. ii, They..spak their thoughts in plain, braid Lallans. 1791A. Wilson Laurel Disputed Poems (1816) 40 (Jam.) Far aff our gentles for their poets flew, And scorn'd to own that Lallan songs they knew. 1887R. L. Stevenson Mem. & Portraits, Pastoral, 99, I translate John's Lallan, for I cannot do it justice, being born Britannis in montibus. 1946M. Lindsay Mod. Scottish 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. 1947D. 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. 1959Glasgow Herald 29 May 8 Lallans is an artificial plaything of frustrated xenophobes. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVI. 410/1 Hugh MacDiarmid,..the most prominent exponent of Lallans, achieved an international reputation, but the Lallans revival has faded. |