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The word 'thatcher'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thatcherOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.42414
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 22.8 9 3
WCE - West Central 23 5 2
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 thatcher in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
a bit too far there Roddy FFS Thatcher?(2021)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ut then that hard nosed bitch Thatcher came along wae her crusade ag on page 86
wready arrived in the form ae Thatcher and her annoyin, smug puss. S on page 87
. He wis in the vanguard when Thatcher decided tae cut oaff the baws on page 88
fe long sense ae camaraderie. Thatcher took that birth right awey fa on page 89

7 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ed Witch o the West (a Maggie Thatcher lookalike) an kilt her stane
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
97 shees a wee clone o maggie thatcher - mark ma words! (2020) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Labour shut as mony as Thatcher did. on page 76
We aa thocht that Thatcher wis backin doun, on page 78

2 matches

Davidson, Alistair The Mitterand Plan, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
stairtit unner Callaghan, no Thatcher.
airty haed buir the gree ower Thatcher i 1983 an implementit Bennite
on individual bad fowk, frae Thatcher an Blair tae Sheridan an Tsip
3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
u the black gold wis uised bi Thatcher an her maisters tae destroy h on page 23
u Theresa May, the puir man's Thatcher, thocht that she cuid get awa on page 55

2 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
wha went aboot we that Dame Thatcher. on page 49

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
an point, another casualty ay Thatcher’s boom or bust Britain. Nae
1 matches

General Central

Seth-Smith, Niki Chynge o sum kind is comin either wey, but a vote tae leave wad empooer Europe’s faur richt, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
verra sowel o the kintra, as Thatcher pruived.
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
jist Adam Boulton and Maggie Thatcher that think/thought we were 'g (2022) twitter link

@DABArbuckle tweeted
we'd a' be delighted tae hae Thatcher back.(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
s early tae watch the news as Thatcher waved her lang oerdue adieus on page 78

1 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
ie Baird an Bell Claverhouse, Thatcher, Blair, Mundell Dr. Findlay, on page 77

1 matches

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