A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tabbies'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tabbiesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.5183
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 52.3 16 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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 tabbies in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
d empty beer tins and loads o tabbies in her gairden. Aften she’d
t the ither an ashtray wi twa tabbies squashed intae it and a wee t
2 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
I wiz wee I used tae pick up tabbies fae the road an walk aboot sa
€™t by sayin ‘I canna stand tabbies on the grun’ and promptly p
n wint tae my special stash o tabbies an ate the lot. As a comfort
aboot it my perfect source o tabbies wiz teen awa fae ma. So as na
Ye’ve nae idea the amount o tabbies I got that wye. But noo wi th
14 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - A hame is a hame is a hame, is it nae?, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
hunners o tabbies in ashtrays thick as bricks, on page 33

1 matches

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
use 'em fur yer baccy? #Drum #tabbies(2015)

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