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The word 'tarry'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tarryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.52512
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 45.8 14 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
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)
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 tarry 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.

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
I see a tarry rodd, on page 50

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
or offices micht cweel their tarry tay in their chippit mugs or
The heid o the hoose wis caad Tarry because he wis brunt blaik wi
n war dowpit doon quate like, Tarry the heid o the hoose wi a cut
ll, Minnie cudna makk oot fit Tarry wis sayin, like as no it wis
the horse in the stable. Fin Tarry McPhail wirked the horse, he
9 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
rs fur a hauf- croon. Gangs o tarry-breeks stravaiged throwe the
the cliff aneth rankled their tarry feathers like weird weemin.
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
eashie auld fisher chiel wI a tarry hat, a muckle wide belt, an w
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
bonnie loon, ma wifie is sae tarry! http://t.co/xe6KYF97ze(2014)
oric spikers an tae those nae tarry eneuch tae spik oor mither to(2015)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
t ye're hidin? Are you gettin tarry-fingered, my lad?" on page 32

1 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
you'd sit inside the fustlin tarry hut on page 40

1 matches

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
milk and honey. Thay daednae tarry and Jeanie niver gied thaim a on page 1

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
help takin tent o the guff o tarry raip an nets. In fack, thare
1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
gain, and decided no tae be a Tarry-breeks efter aw. Sae when Chr on page 49

1 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - Sloth, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Thir’s nae feery-tarry wi him –
1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
she tarry’d in the fields over night,
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
e maun awa, we can nae langer tarry. (Night Visiting Song stolen (2020)
We maun awa. We canna langer tarry for the guid o Scots' bodies (2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
while Ah maun tarry here. on page 56

1 matches

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