A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

thrift Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 1 1.5 9.9 5.8 20.7 4.4
Number of occurrences82 1 1 1 2 1
Number of authors8 2 1 1 1 2 1

Occurrences of thrift in Corpus

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Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
ye pairdon him for the sake o thrift. We haena but the ae ratton. on page 41

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
a hame or thirled tae debt or thrift: on page 63

1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
tell't im, P've aye practised thrift on page 15

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The reed o thrift and campion, broon bladder-wr on page 48

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
looers ???????. As weel as da thrift/sea pinks and spring squill, (2019) search twitter

Southern

Purves, David Lallans 73 - A Whein Auld Chinese Saws, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
The'r nae thrift in gaun aerlie ti bed ti hain on page 83

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
mynd, an hei wis kent fur his thrift, an aince whan his milk
1 matches

Ulster

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Fowkgates, thrift, kirk an tung the' brocht, on page 1

1 matches

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