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The word 'tellie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tellieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4132
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 15.2 6 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 31.9 7 1
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 tellie in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
at introduced the item on the tellie shawed the hail yird his igge
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
speakin 'polite' whan on the tellie the wey the aulder generation
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
his we hae leirit fowk on the tellie singin the praises o Scots in
ublic an parteeclar no on the tellie or wireless.
2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
crack tae be heard yet on the tellie in programs the likes o "Snod
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
o view sae whit wey daes the tellie hiv tae keep on tellin us tha
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Sharks, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ht enough. Just starin at the tellie, only there’s nothin oan th
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Daytime tellie comes dronin fae the livin ro
ecalcitrant wean an turns the tellie oan. ‘Ah don’t know whit
The Charlatans comes oan the tellie an gets me right in the mood
3 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
blarin oot ay the fuckin huge tellie in the coarner. Must be fucki
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
alang the bar screams at the tellie an silence faws oer the place
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
Roadshow – the wan aff the tellie.’ He lifts wan ay Jeanie’
1 matches

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