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The word 'tortoise'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tortoiseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.33111
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 105.5 3 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 18 7 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire 32 3 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 48.4 4 2
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 94.2 3 1
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 tortoise in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
Turtle - we ösed ta caa him Tortoise - " on page 95
"We caa'd him Tortoise becaas he 'taught us' in Engl on page 96

3 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
Turtle-we used till call him Tortoise-" on page 92

3 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Ma tortoise enjoying his morn tomato. Fit(2017)
Ma freen Gonkie the tortoise enjoying his morn braakfist l(2020)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
The Tortoise and the Hare on page 29

6 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 67 - Clash fae Cauld Hill, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Feet stappit intae tortoise-fur buits; on page 39

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
ld Turtle-we used tae caw him Tortoise-" on page 94

3 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
d Turtle-we uised tae caa him Tortoise-" on page 44

3 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
cial True! ??That's why I'm a tortoise an no a hare! Happy Christmas(2014)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
d Turtle - oo yist tae ca im Tortoise - " on page 93

3 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Twa paerls an a kaim o tortoise-shell.
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
tle - wae use't tae caal him Tortoise - " on page 94

3 matches

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