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Use in varieties of Scots

thistles Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.6 2.1 3.2 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences84 2 1 1 0 0
Number of authors8 4 2 1 1

Occurrences of thistles in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
oot o the craps; sneddin the thistles that grew an spread everywhau on page 55

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Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
f the shamrock Lost among the thistles. on page 55

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Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
self-indexin conglomeration o thistles an tartans haudit loosely the
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astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
an hyd eyes as purple as yon thistles oan the burnside and hair as
1 matches

Doric

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
ed tae loup an skite ower the thistles at high speed, an cam oot thr on page 84

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@DoricPhrases tweeted
contribution of Thristles for Thistles and Crappit for Reproduce.(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
op followan me aboot so I pat thistles doon her knickers and ... she on page 128

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Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee on page 19

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