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The word 'tikken'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tikkenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.863
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
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 tikken in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
eter McCaty. Ye hid tae watch tikken a Peter aff o yer hook couse on page 1
's we thi twa cylinder lister tikken ower, tae shiv en mair tyme. on page 56
Fin tikken a neuk, gin slow yee abyde on page 69

3 matches

Rumbles, Brodie-Anne Recordin on Beep, (Scots Hoose 2022) Doric - Banff, weans
it, it wis somethin that had tikken ower her, it wa- [REDACTED] T
ek to help me? Me, een fa has tikken life and could easy tak again
2 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
urnames o the noreast for ye. Tikken fae GG Jamieson's 1937 bookie (2020) twitter link

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