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The word 'tain'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tainOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.74420
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 97.5 22 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 6
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 3
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of tain in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
boolin, an he wis es richt eg Tain, Fa telt ye?" on page 22

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General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
frae the TV, A tain a sait an it cum ower iz awfy
heidit an tain the dry bock bit nathin cum u
udgie yin wi the bauldie heid tain ma
nkit heez bag on the flair an tain oot a wee computer thingy wi
Weel, a tain ma happins aff an the ither p
22 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n lug - n as fir a dance its tain ee long enuff xxx (2021) twitter link
ders m8 - at least the hertz tain them awe the way! (2021) twitter link

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 76 - Tammy an the Cheese Plant, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
tain Tammas Scott felt the caa o n
1 matches

Cunningham, Liam Tam, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Bellshill, prose
it a wiz goin tae git ma heid tain clean aff wae ma wife. A wiz
1 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
A tain a photey e’ a great big mon
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ma back’s loupin, ah’ve tain a sore yin awright, believe y
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
or the chill claws o sleet an tain, micht snatch her precious ba on page 71

1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Ah kent that oor love fir tain-tither wir real! on page 23

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
A tain the dude's advice, ye see, an on page 63

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Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Moffat maks uiss o the Earse Tain Bo Cuailgne, the Brettonic Y on page 110

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Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
Tarbat Discovery Centre near Tain or Groam House Museum in Fort
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
So the BBC who have obviously tain the huff ower complaints fae (2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
k ma drivin licence. This has tain THREE years. The guid news . (2021) twitter link
me tae the hospital. They've tain X Rays. Cuts tae ma heid, bla (2021) twitter link
er auld Nana ever said? Mines tain me shopping for ma skuill uni(2020)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
nin aboot in hur heid, an she tain th vague idea that they haed on page 115

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Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
oon the hill, sumtymes wi the tain an
1 matches

The Westender Mairchers did oor toon prood, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
that maist o' the pupils that tain pairt on Sunday were folk wha
1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Boys shure the man is weel tain in, on page 19

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
Tae Bellycastle baith wur tain on page 54

1 matches

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
ha islan o Airlan in Gret Brïtain an owerseys mercats. It troke on page 49

1 matches

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