Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

theym	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	8.4	13.9	0	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	27	27	0	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	3	3

Occurrences of theym in Corpus

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Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
fitba’er. E’en though in theym days fitba’ers wisnae paid
Ah didnae dawdle there cus in theym days ye’d be as like as not
. Bit the scariest hing aboot theym wis that ah’d been telt the
onths o’ ma life avoidin’ theym oan the streets an’ noo ah
be captured or brainwashed by theym, they wis still that wee bitt
10 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
Ah mean, hoo could ye expect theym wha dinnae even ken whit it i
e Marks n Spencers. Mair o’ theym in the latter than the former
, it simply shone a licht oan theym. An’ that licht husnae goan
�ll be in fer a bashin’ fae theym. The self-styled establishmen
an the paper that matters tae theym.
12 matches

Geddes, Jenny Fling the creepie in January, (McRenegade.Scots 2018) Central, blog
he creepie, January 2018. Fer theym as prefer it in prose. (albei
1 matches

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
She kent theym as whit whur respectful tae t
olk goat respect returnt, byt theym as whit wurnae didnae. They f
ept some a the sheep byre fyr theym if they whur caught oot. Ere
Guid Folk an a Laird amunsgt theym it yon.
4 matches