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The word 'tack'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tackOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus144519
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 57.6 13 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 56.2 4 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 199.9 11 1

Occurrences of tack in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
the words, A. and V. Shearer, Tack Box, and we eat Quaver crisps on page 30

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
their grinning, empty heids. Tack shops in Kirkwall capitalise,
1 matches

Shetland

Laurenson, Hannah Lisa Da Maa's Eggs, (Hands Up For Trad 2019) Shetland, prose
“Dad wid tack me doon on his back tae had d
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
winter. Minnie tried anither tack.
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Brian quickly cheenged tack. "I'm sure they're braw tales
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ten a tin o plum jam and hard tack for brakfast. Hope surged thr
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Cos I'm i'tuck man, aye, I' tack mannie on page 114

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
stertit ta tack ma claithes aff an askit iz t
1 matches

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
d collect gulls eggs we would tack oor slug guns and shot rabbit
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
we an affa sare back! Hid tae tack doon yon Xmas tree & decorati(2018)
urday night in hain tae watch Tack me oot, some thing we that au(2018)
il has finally seen sense tae tack this toon into the 21st centu(2018)
Nae a bad day tae tack masel oot o'the hoose and up (2018)
e cast o'Bugs Life decide tae tack advantage to mack a 2nd film (2018)
and 5 other occurrences.

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
n, ye'd nae bother tae me tae tack on.' on page 18

1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
ond the place wi a daud o Blu-Tack an some A4 sheets - "CLUDGIE
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
hips aye cairried enough hard tack - ships' biscuits, - an can on page 37
Aw they had tae eat wee hard tack an they werenae that weel aff on page 42

3 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ae this, so she tried anither tack. "Whit kind ae fowk live aboo on page 63

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
im o this man's tid. The tick-tack o the auld nock in the corner on page 41

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
chuise the claith, an we sall tack the seams. on page 94

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
'See, tack east, nae straucht fir the Ma on page 14

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
to tack with the odd brisk stagger on page 50

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Ultach The Gra They Hae in Americae, (Reddit 2020) Ulster, poetry
It‘s sicna tack nor gyely wid heth gar ye in
1 matches

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
s Roadin pits forrits, owre a tack o 20 yeir, tha heid airts 'at on page 6
in in tha shoart til mïddlin tack afore tha ettlin o homologati on page 27
skip reengin. Owre tha lang'r tack a wabwark o ootbye cultùral on page 51

4 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
eeve awa frae hame throch tha tack o thair lear
Throch tha tack o yer lear, whar dae ye bide
ye dae as pairt o yer pey’d tack.
Hae ye throcht a tack o prenticin?
s 35 tae 41 fur yer foremaist tack or, gin yer no warkin, yer la
11 matches

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