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The word 'tuff'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
tuffOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.863
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 tuff in Corpus

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General Northern

@cligeey tweeted
@Ali_Leith Tuff een the car(2020)

@daleser23 tweeted
na as good as they have been. Tuff ane to choose tho. Due hame t(2014)
@MikeyForbes1 aye its a tuff game. Fa wiz ye oot we?(2013)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
cotland alas - it must be so tuff for all the teams that r le (2020) twitter link
66221114 guys - its aways so tuff - when the legends of yester (2020) twitter link
@Ryanflanagan97 m8 eer tuff as fuck n nae moaning - b oa (2021) twitter link