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The word 'tenancy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tenancyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9134
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 96.1 9 1
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 tenancy in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
id o twa, an haik aboot fur a tenancy fur him. An that wis foo Minn
1 matches

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
kmans jobs in 1952 we got the tenancy 0' a ninety acre fairm. Start on page 29

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
o siller hained frae his lang tenancy o Heitath - a grand wee ferm on page 48
Wi anither life tenancy in mind, that June he'd mairr on page 50
in settlin wha wad tak on the tenancy o Cruikedbank. 'Edam. Ye are on page 76
m, I've a norie o tryin for a tenancy there when I'm auld eneuch .. on page 77
ther John - held a five-year tenancy in Netherwood, whaur he wis w on page 78
Also on pages 79
9 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
s frae Kale Waitter, tuik the tenancy on. Thair
cher frae Hawick whae hed the tenancy o this ferm whan A
2 matches

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