A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

thread Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 5.3 3.2 0 11.6 10.9 0
Number of occurrences1510 2 0 2 1 0
Number of authors13 8 2 2 1

Occurrences of thread in Corpus

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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

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
st coats would be hingin by a thread efter ten year. Ma guid jaick on page xvii

1 matches

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

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

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

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

@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

Doric

@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) search twitter

Shetland

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

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

Southern

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