A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tab'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tabOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.964
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 tab in Corpus

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General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ugh Bert managed to flick his tab ash in his pint when he went (2016)
a first. He has a bigger bar tab than anyone I know. Gan tae d(2016)

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
. Yae left me tae pick up the tab.’’
1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
heart tae bin, pull open the tab, and let the chunks o meat fa
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
free drink fur everyone oan a tab,' she says. on page 7

1 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
c @ClydeFC Haw! Kin We keep a tab ???? wae yous for when the ga(2020)

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