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The word 'taylor'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
taylorOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.41411
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 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 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 2
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 taylor in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Haud yer horses," said Archie Taylor, yarkin open the door. "It's on page 13
uncan leukit up te see Archie Taylor starin doon it im wi a leuk o on page 15

2 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
@stonefish100 Taylor still better than Duffy and H (2020) twitter link
at left back and Hoban in wi Taylor - then I reckon you’ve got (2020) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
t the nugget a needed. Donkey Taylor neerly snapped Mcrorrie cruci(2020)

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
he ongaed wi'z speik ti auld Taylor, the gairdener, on a nyow cui on page 7

1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
het eneuch the maister, Paddy Taylor wad spleet the cless intae fo on page 22

1 matches

Anderson, Elizabeth Lallans 59 - OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
OBITUARY : ALISTAIR TAYLOR 1928 - 2001 on page 4

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
he case o forestry warkar Bob Taylor that happent tae come by an o
1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor Hippies, Authenticity and Globalisation, (Wordpress 2022) Central, prose
The wark o airtists lik James Taylor an Joni Mitchell teepifees th
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
RIP Meshach Taylor "Hollywood" is nae mare! The (2014)

South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
uncancltaylor Nae spandex, Mr Taylor!(2020)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
a forefathers Andrew and John Taylor MacM lived and died there. a (2020)