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The word 'tuppence'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tuppenceOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1108
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 3
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of tuppence in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
en the local MP shoved in his tuppence wirth, in the Hoose o Commons on page 84

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
hat wad like tae pit in thair tuppence worth on Friday shuid git in
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
or Business Rates, (Bocht fir tuppence ha'penny!) on page 211

1 matches

Dundee

Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
bakery in toun. Cook geid me tuppence fur masel even tho it wisnae
1 matches

General Central

McGibbon, Joe Lallans 74 - Draps o Sapie-Bubble, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
e wee pipes, grespin ticht ma tuppence.
gied mi tuppence mair, tellt mi: ‘Coff anith
ither gied mi a cuddle, forby tuppence.
3 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Than an nou — poverty, makkin dae, an leukin oot for ilk ither, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e the door dependit if it wis tuppence or a penny or ha’penny ablo
1 matches

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ecturer Ted Cowan getting his tuppence in.(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Gibson, Darren Oul money, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
a penny, twa o whuch gien ye tuppence. Bit we’r no daen yit, fer
1 matches

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