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The word 'tu'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tuOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.9239
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
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 9.8 4 1
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 137.2 11 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 tu in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
ds lack an aafil lock o bruck tu me." on page 106

1 matches

Irvine, Chloe Untitled Poem, (The Scotsman 2021) Shetland - Whalsay, poetry
Is I huy tu dyit up un lat du wirds oot,
s dyeen wäek, me hands start tu shak,
2 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 62 - Blue Lift Snaw, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
dug at the barbecue wi his “Tu’s a clever doaggie, tu is,
’s a clever doaggie, tu is, tu kens every wird I say,” I w
t glowers doun at her, but “Tu kens?” she says, wi a sudde
3 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
us vairsiouns o Ch'u Chuang, Tu Fu, Yuan on page 9

1 matches

Campbell, Karen Gie it laldy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Glasgow, blog
Naw tae the TU Bill. Aye tae fair taxation
1 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Five sonnets o Cecco Angiolieri (1250-1319), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
Becchina, poi che tu mi fosti tolta... on page 45

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
(raither lik uisin vous whaur tu is caaed for in a leid lik Fr on page 56

1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
d they Faroeeze dumplings, Gøtu Ítróttarfelag. Took ages ta
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
ngir frein an drinkin cronie, Tu Fu (712-770), leeved in the G on page 34

2 matches

Purves, David Lallans 73 - Ten Owersettins frae the Chinese, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
Frae the Chinese o Tu Fu (712 - 770) on page 37

1 matches

Purves, David Lallans 59 - Five Poems frae the Chinese o Po Chu-I, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
famous predecessors, Li Po an Tu Fu, Po Chü-I is regairdit as
1 matches

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
17. Desert View: Tu Fu (712-770)
24 View frae the Hichts: Tu Mu (803-852)
of Tu Fu (712-770)
of Tu Fu (712-770)
of Tu Fu (712-770)
7 matches

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