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The word 'thrones'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thronesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4118
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of thrones in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
brocht doon keengs fae their thrones; bit e hummle he's reesed up on page 80
ma Keengdom an ye'll sit upo thrones an rowle e twal clans o Israe on page 117

2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
hud a fascination wae Game ae Thrones but who knows. It turned oot on page 20
ged accordingly, ken? Game ae Thrones style. on page 36

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
tively tryin tae tak back the thrones o his ancestors till the late on page 61
less attempt tae win back the thrones o England an Scotland fer his on page 70

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
een o Herts were sat on their thrones when they got there, wi a muc on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
o Scotland succeedit tae the thrones o Ingland an Irland forby his
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
see sum castles fae Game o’ Thrones (as ye do). The furst time A
1 matches

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
It was during the big Game of Thrones casting. A lot of it filmed u(2021)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ngdom. An yis'll sït doon on thrones an judge tha twal clans o Isr on page 107

1 matches

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