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The word 'tons'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tonsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1107
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of tons in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Japanee temple –sax million tons o granite ower the centuries,
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
e a plook. Hunners ae hooses, tons ae folk. Bit nothin tae dae w on page 1

1 matches

Gilmour, Rosie Ma Schuil, (Scots Hoose 2014) Central, weans
cannae wait, a jist miss them tons
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
orbye. Gin ye tried tae shift tons o stuff ilk day by haun = war on page 55
aryin atween twalve an twenty tons, an cuid tak a guid crowd o h on page 91

2 matches

General Central

Curt_Kenobi Mates, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
Aye, ehs a unique cunt. Kens tons ay shite aboot Sean Connery -
1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
ornaments, and then me and ma tons a books. And it looked damn g (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
nae toys tae play wi, an och, tons o lessons tae learn! Nut, Ah' on page 19
"Eet maitters tons tae mei," said Ahlice richt o on page 52
t," said th King, "that saves tons o trouble, ee ken, as oo dinn on page 120

3 matches

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