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Use in varieties of Scots

tenant Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.5 5.3 1.6 9.9 0 21.9 0
Number of occurrences1410 1 1 0 2 0
Number of authors8 5 1 1 1

Occurrences of tenant in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Robertson, James The Mannie, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
'So whit's she like, oor new tenant?' Bob Fraser asked, pittin th on page 9

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
wi emptiness, wee seeds o tenant on page 38

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
Nae langer a puir tenant whase life hung on the whim a on page 48
ellt her he wis mair likely a tenant fermer than a servant. Jennet on page 68
their neibour Wull Ross, the tenant o Tounheid o Greenock, gif he on page 79

4 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
er sale. Gin it had been, the tenant fairmers - wha are the fowk on page 84
enged the law tae benefit the tenant fairmers, but whan the landit on page 85

2 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
om Skirving (1719-1803) wis a tenant fermer in East Lothian at the
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
by the name o Robert Burns. A tenant o Gavin Hamilton the lawyer,
1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Mabel wid iver ken. The next tenant wiz a single man and in nae t
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
strict o Twatt is as a novice tenant fermer. I rent a bit o grund
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
d intil Pairkhill is resident tenant fermers, an
the tenant fermer an his eventual wife,
2 matches

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