Even while focusing on his "sprawling, panoramic" narrative spanning six decades, Robertson funnelled surplus energies into his other activities: poetry, publishing, short-story writing, collecting old songs, translating from French, Spanish, Gaelic? not into English but a rich, literary Scots (what used to be called Lallans).    From Wordnik.com.  [A life in writing: James Robertson] Reference

I hope you don't mind if I consult you about any Lallans questions that may pop into my head.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: THINKING FULL WELL.] Reference

Much the same attends the argument about BVE/Ebonics or Lallans, a subject of this same discussion elsewhere recently.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: BLACK ENGLISH.] Reference

Having been brought up to think of Scots aka Lallans as just a regional dialect, it's strange but not unpleasing to see it as an official language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-09-01] Reference

I am from the generation that was brought up to speak the Lallans but write standard English, and a part of me admires people who can use idiomatic or non-standard phrases without self-consciousness or self-reproach.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: THINKING FULL WELL.] Reference

When I started learning Ancient Greek, I was told that many native Lallans speakers take to Greek because Scots falls naturally to the Homeric hexameter in the same way that English falls naturally to the iambic pentameter.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: BRAW AND WITTY.] Reference

According to a comment by Annie of the very nice Catalogue Blog, this is a common Lallans usage in the West Coast of Scotland; the nearest approximation I could give in standard English would be 'I believe almost to the point of certainty.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: THINKING FULL WELL.] Reference

Fulfilled Scots (Scoats leid/Lallans) alphabet.    From Wordnik.com.  [GNOME-Look.org Content] Reference

The evening commences with the Selkirk Grace, a prayer delivered in Lallans lowland Scottish.    From Wordnik.com.  [GotPoetry.com News] Reference

It is specifically a dictionary of Scots, or Lallans, which some scholars consider merely a dialect of English and others a distinct language rooted in Old English.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XV No 1] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Lallans, Scots Lowland vernacular.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glossary] Reference

(1946) he returned to Scotland full of artistic and nationalistic confidence in time for "the great Lallans war" over the use of the Scots language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news breaking news current news UK news world news celebrity news politics news] Reference

In an article ( "The Use of Lallans for Prose," The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, LI, No. 2, April, 1952, pp. 212-225), I tried to show, elsewhere, this happening to Braid Scots, the Doric, or "Lallans" in Scotland.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 4] Reference