A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tug'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tugOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6127
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 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of tug in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
he wis dien here fan I felt a tug on the line. I hid a fish on!
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
s stopped an offered Jonsar a tug. "Och aye I'll be real
tug, the first mornin Broon An Ro
xander Holmes gaed the lead a tug an said. "Noo noo
3 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
rug an tug, the bloomin things jist widn
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - A Day Weel Spent, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central - East Lothian, prose
He gied a wee tug abuin his breek knees but set on page 125

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy A Day Weel Spent, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
He gied a wee tug abuin his breek knees but set
1 matches

General Central

McLeish, Alistair Lallans 102 - Eco Cheil, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
At tug o war we played, "Haw! Creish on page 41

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Tale o Three Dugs, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
ndel-box, gie the rope a guid tug, aan and I'll ken tae pull ye on page 31

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Muckle Michty Neep, (self-published 2021) Central, poetry
Tae help us gie yon neep a tug!’
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
an hir finger tingled at the tug as she cleansed the vernix fr on page 33
A tug deep wi'in hir womb. A face s on page 35

2 matches

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