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The word 'tan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus18.76129
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 4
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 57.6 13 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 3
WCE - West Central 23 5 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 77.4 17 6
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.9 9 9
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 tan in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
he waeled oot wis markit DARK TAN. Speecial. He scoopit hit aa
1 matches

@tattooedselkie tweeted
@AidanCTweets And fake tan aff the towels!(2021)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
le o Boots, "nivver myn a sun-tan." on page 40
er sulkin oan er sun-bed: fit tan she'd hid, hid aa peeled aff on page 46
r state-of-the-art 'Stand and Tan' booths." on page 81

5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
heir bakkies, getting a Costa tan the Meikleburgh wye, ooto a f
Meikleburgh wye, ooto a fake-tan bottle, skytin on each ither'
2 matches

Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
e hae. A wish a hid a natural tan like you so a dinna need tae
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
close doon? I'm nae needin a tan. https://t.co/V08c6X0Ef2(2019)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Soy tan tonto por escribir esto. Escr on page 107
IF INEED A SUN TAN on page 110
iz i' man fa loved a black an tan on page 130
If i'sun disna come we git a tan frae stanin in i'Scottish rai on page 144

11 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
duncan Charlie fair likes tae tan a coo’s erse in a het paan #(2020)

@beast_afc tweeted
houlder... an lashins oh fake tan....... shock.(2020)

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
Orange, greens, rids, yellas, tan, grey an broon. Then ye mind on page 1

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 67 - Clash fae Cauld Hill, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Ma Tan lauchs that I'm that faur ahi on page 39

2 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Economic Theory, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
lot o junk jewellery, haed a tan deep as gar shaw her lace cla
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
, mostly black in colour wi a tan breist and a tan ee broos. Th
breist and a tan ee broos. That was how David
2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
oot how tae dae that Sin Cos Tan stuff, but ma mind kept wande on page 169

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Tae tan the local wino's baws, on page 30
h love it! The Sweet Black an Tan o it, on page 3758
s dinnae fade as quick as yer tan on page 141

4 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
kname like fuckin Disco. Some tan oan him, right enough, ah'll on page 14

2 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
's tryin tae muscle in n they tan him a beaut. Big dirty wan ri on page 9
We go doon the woods and tan our drink. It's aboot two hou on page 16

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
een oan it fir days. I take a tan, Aonghas takes a tan, Iona de on page 3

7 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
deep tan, perfect hair.
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ed oot the blazer an the auld tan brogues an make ma waiy doon.
1 matches

@johnstone_shane tweeted
Fowks, me an ma son tan aboot three whale (biodegrada (2020) twitter link
doon, but then ye go awiy an tan buiks an underataun that ever (2021) twitter link
Fowks, me an ma son tan aboot three whale (biodegrada (2020) twitter link

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
hope ye're catching quite the tan getting roasted red in hell. on page 34

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Roald Dahl Reekin Rhymes, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785301834) Central, weans
Begins tae tan yer empty hoose. on page 30

1 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
ntoush phone. Fantoush claes. Tan brogues wi nae socks. The hal on page 3

1 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
d alang thegither, and Teeger tan roond them in circles, and sy on page 107

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
"We could tan these bottles in hauf," Viole on page 131

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
an sun-tan lotion. on page 9

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
al haly confessouris, Sancte Tan, Sancte Katheryne, Sancte Mar
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ye but it couldnae gie me the tan tae go wi it ??(2020)

@billykayscot tweeted
he Three Musketeers? The Dark Tan Yin! (D’Artagnan - get it?)(2020)

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