A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tally'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tallyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.175
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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 tally in Corpus

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General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@Smicht Tally ho and a that min(2020)

West Central

Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
him back, an scanct ower the tally wi a waukrif ee.
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ma advice an’ amend your ‘Tally vice,
1 matches

General Central

@LairnScots tweeted
ASLS’s Teaching notes oan Tally’s Blood, The Cheviot, the St (2019) twitter link
e Centre’s Lairnin games oan Tally’s Blood as well as T O’S an (2019) twitter link
N5 and Higher English texts, 'Tally's Blood' and 'Holy Willie's P (2019) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
efter finnin the tally man divvin up mair thun he wu on page 47

1 matches

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