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The word 'tairm'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tairmOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4145
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.4 10 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 tairm in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ie thir days likes better the tairm ‘regional’), an it is gui
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
JEKYLL AND HYDE. It's a tairm that's gotten tae be pairt o
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
itur? An what wul be the lang-tairm affcum for us gin thai dinna? on page 5

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, Colin Lallans 73 - Auld Scots law, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
nou in modren speik, kis the tairm burrow in Inglis haes a deiff on page 24
involved staunin guid, an the tairm coud mean legal securitie or on page 25

4 matches

Robertson, Colin Lallans 81 - Wildlaw, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
jurisprudence’ an sae the tairm ‘Earth jurisprudence’ has
Anither idea inbiggit i the tairm ‘Wildlaw’ is that o ‘la
Til us in Scotland, the tairm Wildlaw micht seem an orra na
’ jurisprudence. The modren tairm for this kinna acteivitie is
4 matches

Young, Clive Creative Scotland an the sowl o Scots, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ant an nooadays aften pitdoon tairm “Lallans”, but A wudna co
iveests. Language is a mair a tairm o convenience. In the wey Cre
2 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
‘back waitter’ (the local tairm fur the tap en o the river
1 matches

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