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The word 'tier'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tierOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.1377
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 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 70.7 29 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 tier in Corpus

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General Northern

McDonald, Charlie Doric Scots Books an Poems, (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
huddin' yer weddin' cake top tier
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
ople wid act in a scenario of tier 1, but, it could be argued, f (2020) twitter link
it wid happen if the city wis tier 1? Same as the summer, ahbody (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ers - we shouldnt even be in tier 3 now - 2 or 1 imo - so u c (2021) twitter link
wid never gaun intae another tier brother - nudge nudge wink w (2020) twitter link
e5 aye n east lothian back in tier 3 nxt tuesday - rest assured (2020) twitter link
y thru here wae eos n youth n tier 2 amateur games lookin to go (2020) twitter link
otests - we should not be in tier 3 - power to the people (2021) twitter link
and 22 other occurrences.

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Hud a fowr tier black ash Hi-Fi shelf on page 140

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 56 - Cauld Kail Fae Embro, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
na thole the biggin o a three-tier seistem whaur Scots speakers on page 121

1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
nces in the Portuguese second tier. Look forward to seeing him p(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
tae this hoose since its in a Tier 4 lockdoon area".(2021)

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