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The word 'tonic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tonicOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4149
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 38 7 3
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 tonic in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Gallons o tonic wine I sup, in the effort tae on page 75

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
o blissful solitude, a daily tonic. on page 16

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Johnstone, Ian Tuney Loon's low doon, (The Fraserburgh Herald 2000) Doric, newspaper
The devilment o these wir a tonic, tae turn tapsalteerie the ca
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
tion cried OIL O VIOLETS HAIR TONIC intae it every morn. There wi on page 52
o her faither's original hair tonic in the bottle so that when sh on page 53

2 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Sales o 'Tonic Wine' went crashin, Doon thro on page 30

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
dey look. 'Stella an a gin an tonic, wit ye waitin fur?' on page 3

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
a tin each n pass a bottle ae Tonic aboot that we aw chipped in f on page 10
rink. We're aw on a bottle ae Tonic each the night. We see an eld on page 12
wenty Mayfair, two bottles ae Tonic n a taxi tae bang intae Monic on page 40
mad cocktail ae adrenaline n Tonic wine. "That's the fuckin Toi on page 41

4 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
ackie an carryin a boattle ag tonic an automatically hink am up t on page 176

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e it waeoot wavin a bottle ay tonic aboot.’ ah sais, walkin awa
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
thon liz mccolgan's a real tonic, eh no on page 32

1 matches

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