A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'thread'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
threadOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.51513
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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 thread in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
Splendid an useful thread fae @HarryJosieGiles here ?? (2021)

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
Here is my promised thread on Tulya's Nicht, the second (2019)

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
Upon the wall hung up wi' thread on page 29

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
tae rant at the world in this thread? Why nae wait a while and see (2022) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
Sign @splbanter Read doon the thread nae richters(2020)

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
With thread of water through Lomond labyr on page 63

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
er danglin fae a long silvery thread in the corner ae the room. Th on page 14

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ant anyone to comment on your thread why r you on twitter in the f (2020) twitter link
@shomac28 you commented on my thread - same thing - doh lol (2020) twitter link
from midlothian hanging by a thread now with regards to there tie (2020) twitter link

General Central

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
wi the knittin or the thread on page 40

1 matches

@jack_capener tweeted
A braw wee thread. All the points raised here a(2018)

@MartinBroon tweeted
hit dae ye’s think?? (follow thread)??(2020)

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
oot the cave on a thread on page 30

1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
@ColinBurnett16 And on this thread I see, exact same language of(2020)

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