A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

threads Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.1 2.5 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences75 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of threads in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
tT WAS yin ae they days. Thin threads ae dry mist straigled ower th on page 1

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
The cryneit dubs wi icy threads,
1 matches

Coyne, Hilary The giant’s wife – or Ailsa the irked, (hilarycoyne.com/ 2021) Central, prose
her by then. Something about threads and her harp and the cat. She
1 matches

Piondargas, Criostoir , (no publisher recorded 2015) Central, prose
postin up on some o the ither threads, its awfu disheartenin tae re
1 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
either Pedro. Following these threads is like unknoting spaghetti-- (2022) twitter link

Doric

@cligeey tweeted
@drewstew62 Trolling, down threads then click across into anothe(2020) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
Reading Twitter threads during a pandemic isn't maybe(2020) search twitter