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The word 'tuna'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tunaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 1
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 tuna in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
A tuna steak is affa fine, an so's a on page 98

1 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@d_anderson878 Tuna, especially tinned. Jist glor(2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
he went away an openta tin ae tuna. Ah said, Ma read ma lips VEG on page 86

1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
n glorifeet. Ma cat Elsie hid tuna in spring waater fir years af(2020)

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ocean filled wae defenceless tuna fish. And if it wis some wee
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
sual selection o cucumber and tuna sandwiches, mini sausage roll on page 4
realises it's hur favourite ~ tuna mayo fae Greggs. on page 77
A piece o tuna falls oot o ma sandwich. 'Ah' on page 78

4 matches

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