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The word 'tape'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tapeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.83218
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 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 32.8 3 1
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 27.6 6 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 4
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 tape in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
black ticker-tape redacted us... on page 25

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
1:30 I hae hidden ma recordin tape in ma pooch. I decided tae me
1 matches

Harper, Edith Legacy, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2021) Doric, poetry
tape-mizzers, bastin threid an pin
1 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
itabootit I'll set the vhs ti tape em fan they come on.(2019)

Aberdeen

Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
Weel, it wis a tape, ye feel. She couldna hear ye
ss. Onywye, it wis a terrible tape - aa' muffled an' crackly -
came, it wis the same crackly tape, an' I still didna hear onyth
3 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Jonsar I hiv a tape here it's a'a aboot a thrashi
affa gweed tape, wi a lot o auld tractors an
the tape came tae the thrashin mull Jo
wisnae happenin on the tape, there wis a lad stannin on t
Ake hid teen the tape himsel an wis nae affa please
5 matches

@cligeey tweeted
@LeftPeggers Al tape it(2020)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
t bit goes there. Cut a bit o tape, will ye? Thanks. on page 66

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
be held thegither wi masking tape. Prior tae that yin there had
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
. Ah kept huvin tae pause the tape aw the time cause the words a on page 17
rian. We went an watched this tape in Home Ec aboot mad cow dise on page 85

3 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Mumbo Jumbo, (Litro magazine 2006) Central, prose
. Ah kept huvin tae pause the tape aw the time cos the words aw
ah jist gied up an ah let the tape play right the way through ti
2 matches

Pennie, Len The year A shouldnae hae had, (tictok 2022) Central - Kilmarnock, poetry
airns held thegither wae duct tape and spite
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
y tae fast forward the bluidy tape!
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ang the blade. Blue insulatin tape’s wrapped roon the haunel.
1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
If we turn the tape backwards, flip it on its hei on page 32
irns, held thegither wae duct tape an spite. on page 94

2 matches

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
The tape recorder wis oan on page 32

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
the day. Feenisht up I hd tae tape mine aw thegither jist tae st on page 10

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
see there wis a muckle bit o tape ower Sunny's mooth, and ropes on page 105
somethin through the strip o tape ower her mooth. Violet had wu on page 122

2 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 59 - Review Folksongs and Folklore of South Uist, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
. In thae days there were nae tape recorders. on page 62

1 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
l and, in the times afore the tape recorder and the computer, th on page 69

1 matches

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