A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tabs Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences42 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of tabs in Corpus

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Central

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
no fashed bi muckle tabs an pleas on page 71

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
the side ay his mooth, keepin tabs oan the barman’s whereaboot
1 matches

Doric

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ut boatmen, so on wee ma cap, tabs in pooch, beer tokens in tow!(2016) search twitter

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
hat with a cuppa and some twa tabs! Three in ane! ??(2020) search twitter