A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'taal'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
taalOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.274
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
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
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 125.5 4 1
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 taal in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
the lass), fer than this twa taal men dinno hiv tae blether abo on page 42

1 matches

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
Da braali taal an dark man spak tae da wife on page 46

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
hae wus noo mair nor nine fut taal, an shae at yinst tuk up the on page 17
k oot, shae wus aboot twa fit taal, an wus gitting wee'er bae th on page 20
gret whin shae wus nine feet taal. on page 21
oorse A hope it maks mae grou taal agane, baecaas A'm really scu on page 34

4 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ot the wurdbeuk Fan de Fryske Taal [fy] wurdbeuk o' the (West) F on page 31

1 matches

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