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The word 'tailors'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tailorsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.273
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.2 6 2
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 tailors in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The tailors o distinction fur Orcadian me on page 46

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
hed atween the weavers an the tailors anent wha shuid hae precedenc
on afore the magistrates. The tailors airgied that, as the preceden
en an men haed mair richt nor tailors tae hae this honour. This bla
s. Bi this time the conquerin tailors wis weel aff the field a guid
d been ordered up tae gie the tailors a haund, an they, the weavers
5 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n a touchline - looks like a tailors dummy lol (2020) twitter link

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