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The word 'tyre'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tyreOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.8198
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 109 6 1

Occurrences of tyre in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
e ahin There's a muckle spare tyre far ma waist eest tae be on page 15

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
flushes, mood swings, a spare tyre an - " on page 68

1 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
udaea, an fae e coast toons o Tyre an Sidon, aa there tae hearke on page 89
een inno you hid been deen in Tyre or Sidon, they'd a repinted l on page 98

3 matches

(South) East Central

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
O tyre-scaurs gowden lit in heidlamp on page 58

1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
O tyre an engine, peerin on page 40
O tyre-scaurs gowden lit in heidlamp on page 74

2 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
ae plan tae have tae change a tyre on ma journey tae ayr(2013)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A leaking hose or flat back tyre on page 40

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ectric streetlights, it's the tyre swings danglin frae them!" on page 38
Hughie jumped aff the tyre an rin up the path. "Grannie on page 39

2 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Bethsaida, fer ïf tha fowk o Tyre an Sidon haed saen tha warkin on page 9
m, an frae alang tha shores o Tyre an Sidon, cum tae hear hïm a on page 79
Bethsaida, for ïf tha fowk o Tyre an Sidon haed saen tha warkin on page 87

6 matches

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