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The word 'tenant'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tenantOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4148
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 52.4 4 1
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 tenant in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
strict o Twatt is as a novice tenant fermer. I rent a bit o grund
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
Mabel wid iver ken. The next tenant wiz a single man and in nae t
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
er sale. Gin it had been, the tenant fairmers - wha are the fowk on page 84
enged the law tae benefit the tenant fairmers, but whan the landit on page 85

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
Nae langer a puir tenant whase life hung on the whim a on page 48
ellt her he wis mair likely a tenant fermer than a servant. Jennet on page 68
their neibour Wull Ross, the tenant o Tounheid o Greenock, gif he on page 79

4 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Mannie, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
'So whit's she like, oor new tenant?' Bob Fraser asked, pittin th on page 9

1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
om Skirving (1719-1803) wis a tenant fermer in East Lothian at the
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
by the name o Robert Burns. A tenant o Gavin Hamilton the lawyer,
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
d intil Pairkhill is resident tenant fermers, an
the tenant fermer an his eventual wife,
2 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
wi emptiness, wee seeds o tenant on page 38

1 matches

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