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The word 'tairget'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tairgetOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1108
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 tairget in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
08's torpedoes had foun their tairget. on page 45

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
fat erse - it wis sic a braw tairget! For God's sake Harry, he'll on page 86

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
m wis yaisin the Steinway for tairget practice wi his aix, an Mingi on page 26

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Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
muddlers in pouer are a braw tairget that she aften hits. on page 97

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Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
the air. It’s gaun wiy aff tairget — thur’s nae chance it’
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
h wad be juist the thing. The tairget that he an his bille, Willie on page 138

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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
rident base tae be a military tairget, ye cin see that there micht on page 128

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
s itsel seen tae be a temptin tairget for the Frenchies an fowk got on page 25

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
sed will lippen on the ettle, tairget audience an subject in haun. on page 12

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Puchowski, James Frae Norrowa ower the faem, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
, the Tories wull be the nixt tairget an the nixt group o fowk tae
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