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The word 'tavern'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tavernOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.2178
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 25.4 10 3
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 tavern in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
frae here. The auld Hingman's Tavern Hotel's gettin convertit inti on page 26

4 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
rinks ale at Grizzle Miller's tavern, in fact the only wummin in t on page 20
ouple oO' bob tae gan tae the tavern wi', bit sometimes he spends on page 25
r spendin' aw his time in the tavern. on page 26

5 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 86, (self-published 2001) Central, newspaper
aitherin hauden in the Castle Tavern, Johnstone Terrace, Edinburgh
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
peying for. A plain loaf in a tavern costs mair as a plain loaf on
nit as it settelt, fillin the tavern wi a lang law rummle.
2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
He duckit intae a tavern whaur he kennt the landlady. on page 23
eadit tae the back door o the tavern an ootside. 'Bide whaur ye ar on page 24

2 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
his jaw slack an deaved frae tavern clash. on page 112

1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ga says, gesturin tae The Wee Tavern.
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
tavern than the Uni. Thir wirds ye s on page 23

1 matches

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