A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ithirs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ithirsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1103
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of ithirs in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Some fowk think she's CGI. Ithirs say she's a robot, me oh my on page 88
Some hae gone an ithirs remain on page 109
I often think I'm richt, bit ithirs think I'm wrang on page 125
'mannie F an ithirs assure ye folks on page 133

6 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ish, tae the ambush site. The ithirs had spare claithes tae stuff
e tae face the scorn o’ the ithirs an’ watch as Colin Roy evic
2 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
The ithirs hurtled ae their doom,
1 matches

General Central

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
as the popularity o the sang. Ithirs like some o the rhymin slang
1 matches

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