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The word 'tanned'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tannedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1109
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 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
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 tanned in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
e eh the Russian Tattie juice tanned...bring oan the morra...????? (2022) twitter link

General Northern

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
and aboot in varying shades o tanned and burnt skin. Justin runs o
1 matches

(South) East Central

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
lub for pre-drinks where they tanned aboot four bottles eh Blue Wk
ion, they aw hud faces like a tanned erse. The booncers acted like
2 matches

MacDonald, Bo CAULD NIGHT, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
ilk attempt. Whaur wance saft tanned skin hud lay, a deep rich pur
1 matches

West Central

Kirk Jn, Albert Whit, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
Tanned aw ma catter an sneckit ma sh
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ine Draught this time. He’d tanned his auld boay’s gairden she
1 matches

@johnstone_shane tweeted
0eSD70MLJ A wee piece ae mine tanned its wiy right in amangst this (2019) twitter link

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
Marshy.. Mind and no get too tanned... :) Aw' the best mate.. ?? (2022) twitter link

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
either or you'll get yer arse tanned tae Fochabers and back.(2020)