A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

thrawin Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.9 9.3 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1918 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors12 11 1

Occurrences of thrawin in Corpus

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Central

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
thrawin oot the daurk an sinkin back on page 9

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
er out the ruim. A hae sein'm thrawin hiz hauns eftir siccan a snot on page 6

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
id Brock, takkin the jaur and thrawin his heid weel back. The cider on page 65

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Mair stark than mountain-thrawin faith. on page 12
Thrawin an thrivin, on page 56

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
e the'r nae plates flittin an thrawin on Mairs, Olympus Mons jist s
icht'a haen muckle tae dae wi thrawin aff-warld rocks the gait o th
he new moon caused a stramash thrawin ither moons ootwards an setti
3 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 70 - The Primped Skull, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Efter the nicht mairch, the thrawin bayonet hunger,
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Tae Kathleen Jamie, an ither Scots Scrievers, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
oond in the vacuum o silence, thrawin oot this auld washin line o a
1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
€™ this maistly consists o’ thrawin’ in some guid Scots words l
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
, my feres,’ skirls Snawba, thrawin doun the pentbrush, ‘tae th
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Beatrice stiffent. Insteid o thrawin him aff, as he obviously expe
yntless disteenctions an mind-thrawin weys o pittin things. Ancesto
shuk her heid, Schadenfreude thrawin her mou. He leukit at the twi
it ower the bottles o liquor, thrawin in some fags, an they gaed on
thaim jooglin open knifes an thrawin thaim tae ither, on the yin o
5 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
emkin Pairty, scurryin aboot, thrawin up bonnie hoose-fronts an dre
1 matches

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 63 - A Wird i Yer Lug, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
fleein roon a suppermairket, thrawin free messages intil a trolley
1 matches

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