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The word 'tinny'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tinnyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4147
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 40.7 7 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 tinny in Corpus

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Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
hiv a cool drink oot the ould tinny. on page 35

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
ta dry, ta store in a tinny. on page 56

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Dodie's Phenomenal Pheesic, (Shetland For Wirds 2008) Shetland, weans
Dan dey wir a muckle tinny o WAXWELL FLÖR POLISH. HIT R
-coloured waxy stuff oot o da tinny an plunkit hit athin da pan.
BROON SHOE-POLISH. Da muckle tinny he waeled oot wis markit DARK
A TINNY O CURRY POODER
A TINNY O MUSTARD POODER
6 matches

Mid Northern A

Goodall, Phyllis J. Lallans 59 - Last May a Braw Wooer, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, newspaper
er's copper-bottomed pan wi a tinny o game soup bilin dry on Mith on page 94

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
rra possessed them tae bigg a tinny monstrosity like yon?” mooe
1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
cided tae go fer an efterneen tinny tae Bert’s hoose, nithing he(2020)

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
tune playin oot a tinny bassless phone speaker is DJ on page 5
tenin tae tunes comin fae the tinny speaker in Danny's Sony Erics on page 16

2 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
nny, the newsreader’s voice tinny an irksome, engenderin an urg
1 matches

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