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Use in varieties of Scots

tattoo Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 4.1 1.5 0 5.8 10.3 8.9
Number of occurrences138 1 0 1 1 2
Number of authors10 6 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of tattoo in Corpus

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Central

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
belly bare, a tattoo disappearin tantalisingly on page 30

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
shed wi a yella lightnin bolt tattoo. It's faded and obscured by t on page 1

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
An a jyle-hoose tattoo on page 37

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
d looked doon at Coont Olaf's tattoo. She couldnae bring hersel ta on page 109

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
his left haun. Some fowk had tattoo-like merks that shawed whiles
see noo that the merk wisna a tattoo, bit a walt. Hsien’s finger
appraisinly, as gin it wis a tattoo job. A joog o cauld watter wi
3 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
y @grantsneddon5 why no get a tattoo - or get eer nails done - o (2020) twitter link

Doric

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
aulder and the boobs hide yer tattoo ?? ??(2021) search twitter

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
t tae be able tae get anidder tattoo(2021) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
h95 Noo YON wad mak the kinna tattoo Ah'd hae oan me ?? (2020) twitter link

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
The Walled City Tattoo wus a gye guid example o' a b on page 45

2 matches

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