A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'taers'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
taersOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.7193
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 110.4 19 3
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
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 taers in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
apon hersel dat muckle at da taers stöd itae her een; an dey wi on page 14
Da Peerie Loch O Taers on page 16
dat, shö löt faa gallons o taers, till dey wir a muckle hol o on page 17
oor Alice, an her een filt wi taers ageen as shö guid on, "I mos on page 20
ö wis athin da peerie loch o taers at shö wis grutten whin shö on page 21
Also on pages 62, 95, 99, 107
11 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
la answered, as I cood see da taers waalin up in her een, "Bit it on page 21
t fur a hankie ta wipe awa da taers runnin doon her face. An here on page 25
d," Andy burst oot, nearly in taers, "Bit I relt her, I just t ., on page 39
er struggling ta hadd back da taers. "Hit's Zara. Peter cam hame on page 43
photo fae my haandbag, wi da taers runnin doon my face. My beaut on page 58

6 matches

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
ained wi wis dat nycht, wi da taers runnin doon her face. Hit kin
ld. Shö jöst sat dere wi da taers straemin doon her face, an I
2 matches

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