A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tabby Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5 0 18.1 29.8 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences160 12 3 1 0 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of tabby in Corpus

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Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ell o folk smokin fags. But a tabby, noo that’s a different mat
tter aathegither. Fin I see a tabby on the grun I jist hiv tae ea
grun’ and promptly put the tabby in the nearest bin. ‘Bliddy
imes though the thocht o fine tabby wiz literally burnin a hole i
i great relish I’d sook the tabby then chaw it up tip ana. The
11 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
cry? Wee drappie chumpers and tabby. Fit rare. #SexDrugsAndAiberd(2016) search twitter

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
nd tae luk again. There wis a tabby cat standan on the corner o P
improve his mood – wis the tabby cat he haed spotted in the mo
He turned tae smile at the tabby, but it haed geen. Instead he
3 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
deid ipo da rodd, his lovely tabby fur matted wi blood. Dey wirn on page 28

1 matches

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