A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tham Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words13.9 16.5 19.2 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences4331 12 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of tham in Corpus

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Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
"Dinnae let tham see yer afflicted, hen" on page 12
Ah think o tham as newlins on page 14
than put aff wearin tham kis Ah dinnae like tham on page 15
sookin tham in on page 17
Ah see tham day an daily on page 20
Also on pages 24, 26, 27, 28, 34, 36, 37, 40, 41, 44, 45, 51, 52, 53
30 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
m within the houssis, I curse tham without the houssis, I curse
1 matches

Doric

@DoricPhrases tweeted
iling - bit fin ye speir tae tham or ask fur help fin they are (2018) search twitter
eets unconditionally, play wi tham, dad dance awa faet aa athoot(2018) search twitter
teaspeen an ah’m nae giving tham back, an ah’m nae gyan tae c(2018) search twitter
well dane tae fa iver pluntit tham. https://t.co/aoV7OYkeCF(2019) search twitter
s telt me tae take a picter o tham wi Brendan Cole whilst we wer(2019) search twitter
and 5 other occurrences.