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Yance vs Ance - What's the difference?

yance | ance |

As an adverb yance

is (dialect|northern english dialect) once (in both senses: only one time, and formerly).

As a proper noun ance is

.

yance

English

Adverb

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  • (dialect, Northern English dialect) once (in both senses: only one time, and formerly)

    • References

    * [2004], Griffiths, Bill, A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Northumbria University Press, ISBN 1-904794-16-5, page 191: * [1997], Leith, Dick, A Social History of English, Routledge, ISBN 0415097975, 9780415097970, page 45:

    ance

    English

    Adverb

    (head)
  • (chiefly, Scotland)
  • * {{quote-book, year=a. 1805, author=Jane Elliot, title=English Poets of the Eighteenth Century, chapter=A Lament for Flodden, edition= citation
    • , passage=The English, for ance , by guile wan the day; The Flowers of the Forest, that fought aye the foremost, The prime of our land, lie cauld in the clay. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1818, author=Sir Walter Scott, title=The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="If I were ance at Lunnon," said Jeanie, in exculpation, "I am amaist sure I could get means to speak to the queen about my sister's life." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1873, author=Anthony Trollope, title=The Eustace Diamonds, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Pownies ain't to be had for nowt in Ayrshire, as was ance , my leddie." }}

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