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The word 'tir'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tirOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1105
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of tir in Corpus

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Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Lallans 58 - Eicht poems bi Robert Alan Jamieson, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
He tinks - Quhitna kynda krætir on page 27

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
"We're fur Tir-nan-Og," quo the Sangsters, t
enny nur Brian hid a clue far Tir-nan-Og micht be – bit it so
Adam's Peak, nor Glesga, nor Tir-nan-Og nor Americay, bit it h
That she's at aince thon Tir-nan-Og I've dreamed,
e an Navachitta, the trip tae Tir-nan-Og that she made wi her b
5 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
ericht.......and dinae forget tir brolly eirher as currently ch(2014)

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
@1514mdavidson tir no wrong the bungle #righttre(2012)
@gillan_ross tir only #15 #kid(2013)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
on maps: a kin o Ulster Scots Tir na Nog wi mair sheuchs ; ) (2014) twitter link