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The word 'tabby'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tabbyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5164
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 36 11 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
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)
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 tabby in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
nd tae luk again. There wis a tabby cat standan on the corner o P
improve his mood – wis the tabby cat he haed spotted in the mo
He turned tae smile at the tabby, but it haed geen. Instead he
3 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
deid ipo da rodd, his lovely tabby fur matted wi blood. Dey wirn on page 28

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ell o folk smokin fags. But a tabby, noo that’s a different mat
tter aathegither. Fin I see a tabby on the grun I jist hiv tae ea
grun’ and promptly put the tabby in the nearest bin. ‘Bliddy
imes though the thocht o fine tabby wiz literally burnin a hole i
i great relish I’d sook the tabby then chaw it up tip ana. The
11 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
cry? Wee drappie chumpers and tabby. Fit rare. #SexDrugsAndAiberd(2016)