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The word 'tablet'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tabletOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.62813
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 112.3 9 2
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) 102.5 2 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of tablet in Corpus

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General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@d_anderson878 Toffee (tablet) wiz fit mither an oor grunni(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
an E. He takes a small yelly tablet fae his jean poacket. Huddin on page 79

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ay night when ma ma wis makin tablet or when she'd naebdy else tae on page 45

1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
on fir the Brownies, A think. Tablet. An less o the aal! https://t(2020)
Tablet. https://t.co/FuYKsgYSId(2020)
Toffee is fit we aye cried tablet. Tablet is the posh name, use(2020)

Glasgow

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
hall. Mrs Gary must be makin tablet, ah on page 7

1 matches

Atkins, Elise Billy Barr ’n’ Jonny Jimison’s Day Oot!, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Central, prose
wi liquorish sticks, bars ae tablet sittin’ stacked up at the f
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
hall. Mrs Gary must be makin tablet again. Mammy furgot tae gie m on page 15

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Your face is a tablet o grief. on page 35

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
n Swinney, Clydesdale Aileen, Tablet @MareeToddMSP, (her tablet's (2020)
P an rate her the second best tablet maker in the soon tae be repu(2020)
coming @celticwitch1995 But o tablet(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
fa ony browser, an work oan a tablet or PC: https://t.co/vXeokzFDe (2020) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
urt, pineapple, roast turkey, tablet, an hot buttered toast), she on page 13
"They lived oan tablet," said th Dormoose, efter hin on page 72
"Tablet," said th Dormoose, withoot c on page 73
"Tablet," said a sleepy voice ahint h on page 114

8 matches

@officialAliRed tweeted
rlier, afore getting hugs and tablet frae Auntie Pat. Currently en(2019)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
HOO TAE MAK TABLET on page 28

2 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
Scots? I cannae get this daft tablet thing I hae tae play ocht the (2015) twitter link