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The word 'thraw'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thrawOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus14.44630
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 20.5 8 4
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 3
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 24 18 10
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 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 28.1 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 36.3 2 1

Occurrences of thraw in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
I thraw yir scrawny owld neck on page 144

1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 63 - Three poems, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, poetry
A hiv it yet an canna thraw it oot.
1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
nou fowk doss doon clinkers A thraw thaim back aw A ivver ettled on page 3

1 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
un fer fyte, aye a motor cood thraw,
1 matches

TheChielMeister Ah'm e chiel (sae dinna fash), (youtube.com 2011) Doric, poetry
Wi sic a weirdfu thraw in life ah ootriggit masel up
1 matches

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
ae ma granny’s, swith, an I thraw ma erms roon her.
1 matches

(South) East Central

Moodie, Gordon D. Lallans 90 - Snoke Iz A Pithie Warlock, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
rheid; ma furst inklin iz tae thraw appen the door bit convenshun on page 81

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
He'l no fash for ye a thraw! on page 48

1 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
she hid a nicht thraw at me. Ah suppose wan o' the on page 29
, she micht hae no hid sich a thraw at me if Ah hid only cam fae on page 31
m. Mind, if they cannae git a thraw at some stranger, they'll fec on page 32
h'd did wrang. She even hid a thraw at the weiy Ah made the beds. on page 36

5 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
Ti thole anither thraw, the cave-heid far on page 60

1 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 59 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
wrocht sair ti thraw thair share on page 129

1 matches

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
they thraw the seeds of dockens in ma co on page 129

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Aw Aboard! The fecht for the Scots language stairts the day!, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central - Bellshill, blog
awthin. Pure millions, it is. Thraw in a hantle o oor ither Scots
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
man yaised his ither haun tae thraw Hsien’s lug. Hsien stuid up
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
ne'er mair than a stanes thraw on page 20

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Tae thraw some licht upon a path that f on page 73

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
, cruel men, an no sweirt tae thraw the neck o a hen or twa for t on page 58

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
dag. Thraw hape on page 44

1 matches

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
t, stert snappin his fingirs, thraw wide his airms, boonce the ta on page 140

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
raison. Gin ye bade your fowk thraw themsels intae the sea, they on page 39

1 matches

McGregor, Iain Lallans 90 - Sally, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
'Ay, an oo cuid thraw sticks in an see gin the bais on page 59

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
d, 'hae magic pooers that can thraw the craiturs o this earth int on page 10

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
and it goes oot for a thraw on page 3

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Shaw hou thae pluffins thraw the seed on page 3
ichtly his, clock key his tae thraw. on page 13
Upon a bawbee's thraw, peyed siller wins on page 31
Deid-thraw fed fousome on a fisher's lea on page 37
Tae thole anither thraw, the cave-heid far on page 45

5 matches

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Or balconies fa oot o thraw, an indwallers maun wait on i on page 43

2 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
We'll thraw aff this wecht... on page 35

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
hat maks a breenge at it will thraw up craters that we can see ta
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
These are magic luve aipples. Thraw ane afore Atalanta as she rin
Dinna waste this ane, mortal! Thraw it tae the side, faurer awa.
2 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
reservation o Scots. It’s a thraw back tae the sixteenth centur
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
tae thraw a jew on page 25
wad hae hid tae thraw on page 42
They wad thraw oot that auld slab on page 77

3 matches

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
tha stannin o leids thair's a thraw agin ower tha hale warl, tha on page 17

1 matches

Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
irie,” Dorothy wis richt an thraw. “We aa gaes whaur we chuis
1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
Tha thraw amang tha follaers o Jesus on page 107

2 matches

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