A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'them-'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
them-Occurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.242
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 70.3 2 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 them- in Corpus

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North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
things - A canna mind half o them-an id belongs till a fairmer, on page 22
obody pays any attention till them-an ye've no idea how confusan on page 81
a great crowd assembled aboot them-all sorts o peedy burds an bei on page 104

3 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
hings-ah cannae mind hauf ae them-an it's a fermer's dug, ye kno on page 23
any rules, naebdy bothers wae them-an ye've nae idea how confusin on page 83
a huge crowd mobbed aw aroon them-aw kinds ae wee birds an beast on page 106

3 matches

General Central

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
Lat the littlans abee, hender-them-na tae come tae me; the Kingdo
1 matches

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