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The word 'twasum'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
twasumOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.6182
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 33.2 13 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 25.1 4 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of twasum in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
shae sein the garron, wi the twasum, lik twenes ticht set on its
intil a houss. Anither twasum ruggit apen the duir o the ke
the forfochelt twasum, it wes a carrant outsettin t
the twasum, skairin thair greve. Belyve,
The twasum hauddit thair coy fur a fyow
13 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Dalquharter (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9559-105-6-2) Central, prose
He waached the twasum quat the ruim, hir goun lowin on page 4

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
the wark wes nerr-haun an the twasum wes sune chappin awaw, Thai w on page 42
allik tung nae baither an the twasum sauled about in hiz boitie, a on page 45

3 matches

South West (Galloway)

Scott, Hamish Eemis Stane 1 - Fields o Stanes, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
y o daein things, but for the twasum lik Jeems an Janet it wis sim on page 21

1 matches

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