A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

thrissles Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 5.1 10.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1710 7 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 2 2

Occurrences of thrissles in Corpus

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Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
e haycorns, said, 'Whit aboot thrissles?' on page 24
' said Pooh. "Teegers aye eat thrissles, sae that wis hoo we cam tae on page 26
ained that Teegers didna like thrissles. on page 27
He doesna like thrissles - the jags are ower jaggy. on page 28
"Thrissles.' on page 30

9 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
e for sneddin corn/sugar cane/thrissles etc .(2020) search twitter

Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
it fae a fun buss or figs fae thrissles? A gweed tree aye cairries gw on page 15
it. Ye dinna gaither figs fae thrissles, nor gaither grapes fae bramm on page 90
tter. A pucklie seed fell amo thrissles, e thrissles grew up alang wi on page 93

5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
irden stappit fu o nettles an thrissles, an muckle fat bummers,
ben the thrissles, the kye war chawin the cweed
2 matches

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