A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tad'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tadOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus17.25712
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 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 9.8 4 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 247.9 40 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 11.8 9 4
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 tad in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
you young team need tae get a tad boisterous...the black velvet (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
"Ah thoat the flair looked a tad dirty. So ah took the liberty on page 192
vin Craigy and masel lookin a tad worried. on page 195

2 matches

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
like Dunfermline Glen anely a tad bigger. Wolves were huntit an
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 175, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
ll down dale', 'chums', an 'a tad' as easy as Scots phrases the
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Did his lens bend the truth a tad?, (Wha needs Uri Geller!?) on page 46

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
an yir tongue is jist a tad loose. on page 70
ower dain it jist a tad. on page 101

2 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
gs to make his size n shape a tad less of a hinderance. Ah cann
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
achutes. The reid-heidit man, Tad, insistit that Beatrice tak h
lute o the haun aff the broo. Tad wis delightit, caaed aabodyâ€
r upwart intae the fuithills. Tad led thaim in a silent straggl
wis roch. Late in the mornin, Tad cautiously breistit a ridge a
yne him. Beatrice, aye weirin Tad’s sheepskin, waitit wi Bill
39 matches

General Central

Facebook link ( 2022) Central
As ye can see the day wis a tad stormy wi wild wind an rain i

Facebook link ( 2016) Central
clue whit he wis like. A wee tad radical … Naw totally radic

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
his throne aifter life got a tad difficult when his lords deci
’s cage jist sayin it’s a tad mair complicatit.

Facebook link ( 2021) Central
' which gies ye a clue. A wee tad radical ... Naw totally radic

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
so I couldn't reply, it wis a tad over the(2020)

@jax6754 tweeted
@IAmChrisRamsey Is it no a tad early tae dae a Crimbo Photo (2015)
ficial @EQHQLivingston Just a tad far fir this East Coast lassi(2015)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@wgsaraband a tad bit... a muckle whump.(2020)

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