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Use in varieties of Scots

tailors Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.4 3 0 9.9 0 0 4.8
Number of occurrences86 0 1 0 0 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of tailors in Corpus

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Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
hed atween the weavers an the tailors anent wha shuid hae precedenc
on afore the magistrates. The tailors airgied that, as the preceden
en an men haed mair richt nor tailors tae hae this honour. This bla
s. Bi this time the conquerin tailors wis weel aff the field a guid
d been ordered up tae gie the tailors a haund, an they, the weavers
5 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
n a touchline - looks like a tailors dummy lol (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The tailors o distinction fur Orcadian me on page 46

1 matches

Ulster

Millar, Alan Yarns 3 - Sammy Thomson's, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - East Donegal, prose
itinerant souters, tailors an tha lik, that straivaged t
1 matches

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