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The word 'tellan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tellanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4135
ORK - Orkney 99.4 10 3
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 70.3 2 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
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 tellan in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Becase ah'm tellan thee - that's why. on page 5
"You're tellan me tae mak a choice? Weel, ah on page 51
He said tellan lies wis a terrible sin so aa on page 62
Then aabody thinks that ah'm tellan a lie. on page 71
the best thing wid be I'd be tellan no lies. on page 72

5 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
e got some papers here." "A'm tellan thee," says Higgie, thight, " on page 58
e gittan, sheu haes a waant o tellan, a waant tae be haerd. on page 96
pt whit maan be deun, so thir tellan taels instaed." "Yass, yass, on page 99
hid's deun. Sheu's thinkan on tellan Astrid aboot the yole. Will h on page 154

4 matches

West, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Men tellan stories and yarnan on page 35

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
denyan id. A suppose ye'll be tellan me next at ee never tasted an on page 51
So Alice began tellan them her adventures fae e tim on page 99

2 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 81 - Annie and the New Chairs, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
‘Ah’m tellan ye thay’re no the same chai
1 matches

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