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The word 'tattoo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tattooOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91310
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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 20 2 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of tattoo in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
t tae be able tae get anidder tattoo(2021)

North Northern B (Caithness)

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
aulder and the boobs hide yer tattoo ?? ??(2021)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
y @grantsneddon5 why no get a tattoo - or get eer nails done - o (2020) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
An a jyle-hoose tattoo on page 37

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
his left haun. Some fowk had tattoo-like merks that shawed whiles
see noo that the merk wisna a tattoo, bit a walt. Hsien’s finger
appraisinly, as gin it wis a tattoo job. A joog o cauld watter wi
3 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
shed wi a yella lightnin bolt tattoo. It's faded and obscured by t on page 18

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
d looked doon at Coont Olaf's tattoo. She couldnae bring hersel ta on page 109

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Curran, Doug Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
belly bare, a tattoo disappearin tantalisingly on page 30

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
h95 Noo YON wad mak the kinna tattoo Ah'd hae oan me ?? (2020) twitter link

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
The Walled City Tattoo wus a gye guid example o' a b on page 45

2 matches

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