Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tholes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

tholes	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.3	17	9
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central	4.6	1	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	12	9	3
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)	51.2	1	1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster	42.2	3	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)	18.2	1	1

Occurrences of tholes in Corpus

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West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The auld bell tholes time, couried in the daurk, on page 86

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
"HE THAT THOLES OVERCOMES" - graced on page 112

1 matches

General Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 73 - Proverbs o Hell, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
Him that tholes a gowk like yersel - on page 81

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
Thaim that tholes , owercomes
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
tae mention queer wimmen – tholes the same dree forby. This Wee
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
, wice Scots saw Thaim that tholes, owercomes Scotland!???????(2020)
ent or its tint. Thaim that tholes, owercomes. Thirs amang ma (2020)
auld Scots saw, Thaim that tholes, owercomes!(2020)
@NicUalraig Thaim that tholes, owercomes. Hope yere feeli(2020)
es peace, Brian. Thaim that tholes, owercomes. Nae maitter whit (2020)
and 1 other occurrences.

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
rk wi the schuils, thaim that tholes owrecomes ?? (2020) twitter link

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Their crack aye bides, aye it tholes, on page 24

1 matches

General Ulster

Smyth, Anne I Corinthians 13, (Ullans Magazine 2012) Ulster, prose
Luive tholes at, an is couthie; luive disn
aa, trows aa, lippens tae aa, tholes aa.
Luive tholes aye: bot gin thar’s proaphe
3 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
a on accoonto me, but he that tholes tae tha enn wull be saved. Wh on page 9

1 matches