A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'threads'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
threadsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.177
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 threads in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

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

(South) East 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

West Central

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

Glasgow

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

General Central

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

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

South West (Galloway)

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