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The word 'tailor'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tailorOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.9339
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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 67 26 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 tailor in Corpus

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Orkney

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
ak peace on thee, thu're no a tailor yet.' on page 39

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
y, I read an advert ~ hid wis tailor-meed fur me. An openeen fur a on page 68

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Truly, I tink, a tailor's dummy wid a dön. on page 86

1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 73 - David, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, poetry
Tinker, Tailor, Sodjer, Spy on page 13

1 matches

McDonald, Charlie Doric Scots Books an Poems, (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
Takkin up helms o' tailor bocht breeks
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
mall fortune and wis nae doot tailor-made. Even the gless ae bubbl on page 48

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 62 - The Wee Tailor in the Haunted Kirkyaird, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, weans
The Wee Tailor in the Haunted Kirkyaird
There wis aince a wee cripple tailor wha sat on his bink aa day an
k in the village loed the wee tailor, an cam inby for tae hae a cr
nco craitur or ither. The wee tailor sat an tuik tent o aa this an
ye wadger?” speirt the wee tailor.
23 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
tailor as he, the thief, is yaised t
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
in that same capacity tae the tailor squadron, aimed a clout at th
1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
mming it from top to toe with tailor-like fastidiousness and nicet on page 69

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
the hale foy tailor-makkit on page 58

1 matches

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