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The word 'tribe'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tribeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12617
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 2
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 5
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) 98.5 3 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of tribe in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
A tribe o peedie warriors led bi me o on page 74

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Whit a tribe, who hiv so much on page 13

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
fand a picter frae the Sioux tribe o a chiel smoored in fedders.
1 matches

General Northern

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
n ad in the Ghouls Gazette. A tribe o cannibals in Africa are loo on page 40

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
t, as befitted an elder o the tribe. "The hill's are fite! There' on page 51

1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
us Scottish folk cam fae the tribe o' Dan. Ah often winder if th on page 13

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
“An whit aboot aw thon tribe o wee McGinns? D’ ye jaloos
“..for a tribe o humpybackit sumphs wha’v
n aw the rest o the parasitic tribe ...”
3 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
intae this shop called Trendy Tribe. Ma ma isnae happy aboot us g on page 50
only ever walked past Trendy Tribe, but then ah also felt bad ca on page 52
Ah wisnae that keen on Trendy Tribe. Ah thought thir sizes wur de on page 53

3 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e!” Beatrice telt him. Ilka tribe in Central Asia yince had a m
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
een the cracks. The forgotten tribe. Social misfits. The miscrean
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
his faimily ..Tho I ken as a tribe they're nae better or waur no on page 61

1 matches

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
the warst haithen o the haill tribe, an accursit reprobate.' 'Aib on page 14

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
belangin the heidbummer o the tribe. The puir wee chiel, lookin s on page 81

1 matches

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
each tribe shair it wis the best. on page 16

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
speech o the Angles”. This tribe arrivit in sooth-east Scotlan
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
se - they're not even a real tribe. (2022) twitter link
member now, knowing that her tribe will vote her leader no matte (2022) twitter link
then. There are many in that tribe. #disappointments (2022) twitter link

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Iverie fiel a plantit tribe on page 15
Tha loast tribe on page 51
Thon Oul Licht tribe A own in pairt on page 75

3 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
us a dochtèr o Phanuel o tha tribe o Asher. She wud stap ïn tha on page 73

1 matches

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