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 words4.9 5 4.5 0 11.6 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1610 3 0 2 1 0
Number of authors14 8 3 2 1

Occurrences of thread in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

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

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
Upon the wall hung up wi' thread on page 29

1 matches

@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