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The word 'tiger'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tigerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.7288
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 91.9 20 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 tiger in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Anja Poosack, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
And his stripy tiger tail
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
roond you tae faersome tiger on page 46

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
intin green and bricht Like a tiger in the jungle on page 15

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Dinna get tiger or multigrain on page 84

2 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
le big man. He could cairry a tiger unner each oxter and gie a ha on page 3

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ee boy she's gatinnae caw him Tiger Hart after Tiger Jackson an M on page 59
s three ae them in the group (Tiger Jackson, David McManus an Mur on page 75
nae knees an this T-shirt wi Tiger Jackson on it. She spottet th on page 77
read in Starmix magazine that Tiger Jackson fae Stramash disnae e on page 88
et butterflies in ma stomach, Tiger, Murray on page 116
Also on pages 117, 151, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 169
20 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
he jist lacks that eye ae the tiger instinct. Aw flight and nae f
1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
the lion and tiger fruchts. on page 82

1 matches

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