Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tammy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

tammy	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	15	48	10
ORK - Orkney	9.9	1	1
SHD - Shetland	17.4	3	2
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	12.8	5	1
WCE - West Central	96.5	21	1
DUN - Dundee
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)	174.7	14	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 tammy in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Wi a scarlet, woolly tammy. Poor Sadie stared, confused. on page 35

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
idder bairns caaed him Teefy Tammy, an aksed foo mony knives his on page 73

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Tammy norie selfy- sometimes u can (2016)
Cloods o Tammy Nories at Da Head! A sheeny s(2013)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
pit on ma wallyford bluebell tammy - as am no wantin ony public (2020) twitter link
e n hud ma wallyford bluebell tammy oan - adda been weel up fir (2020) twitter link
al wear ma wallyford bluebell tammy in awe - a kin get in anywhe (2020) twitter link
urnin up in a tranent juniors tammy n supportin the opposition n (2021) twitter link
it am gonna keep ma bluebell tammy oan n tickle ma isobel wae th (2020) twitter link

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 81 - Annie and the New Chairs, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
Frae the end o the baur Tammy Scott added,
trigued bi this exchynge and, Tammy Scott, unable ti resist sugge
Tammy responded
‘Weel’ said Tammy , ‘thare is anither solution
Tammy lauched,
5 matches

Hardie, George Lallans 76 - Tammy an the Cheese Plant, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
Tammy an the Cheese Plant
Whan Tammy Scott walked intil the Braesi
Tammy ordered his pint an asked, �
“Naething ti dae wi me, Tammy , an, bi the wey, that’s pey
Tammy walked ower ti the table, sat
16 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
cunt walks by. He’s goat a tammy oan, pult doon aboot as low a
1 matches

Ayrshire

Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
rs wi' his wee blue and white tammy on, bawlin' at the top o' his
1 matches

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
hid manked his bonnie tammy on page 10

1 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
@musicmeandtea Tammy and gloves on ?? ice skating (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
s the Coachman’s Hoose whar Tammy Wulson an his faimlie bade. T
Wulson an his faimlie bade. Tammy wis the gairdner/chauffeur/fe
Tammy Wylie, wrocht i the wuds it B
ilins, wi Girnwud an Wudburn. Tammy Hudson, whae wis sib tae the
ter Cobler i the waittergate. Tammy ’s hoose stuid nixt til the
14 matches