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The word 'tarves'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tarvesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.583
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of tarves in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Oh, weel...bit aat's jist Tarves fir ye," said Ruth. "Fit they on page 76

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"It the Melvin Haall in Tarves. It's bin weel advertised an on page 36
arkit in front o the haall it Tarves: the main street wis deed an on page 38
n by te see some'dy Ah ken in Tarves an syne Ah thocht Ah'd bi es on page 42

4 matches

General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
Fly tipping aul carpets Tarves Balgove Road nae need https:/(2020)
@LopezMinty Republic o Tarves(2020)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
re Probably dae Pitmedden tae Tarves in a dizzen crunks on yon bik(2020)