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The word 'tumble'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tumbleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.11010
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 tumble in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
oxes beget boxes, teleskop an tumble doon on page 25

1 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
and tumble intae on page 143

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
on a plate, bit noo he took a tumble ta himsel, an coodna do anyoc on page 11

1 matches

Mid Northern B

Bowie, Tyler Stookie, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ma feet went fae under me. I tumble doon and fell clatterin right
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e comin acroass two rough and tumble boays like us in his line ae on page 17

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
the airborne drawers. As they tumble through the air, they start t on page 27

1 matches

Grae, Emma Jimmy and his wee darlin Alexa, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
n met his maker efter takin a tumble richt aff the keel o the Quee
1 matches

General Central

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
Ben wis alright. Efter his ‘tumble on the hill’ – she’d pu
1 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
I think they're shrunk in the tumble dryer! Let's face it he's the (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
the shed ti the washin in the tumble dryer and your 1 year old cha(2019)