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The word 'thiv'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thivOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.9194
ORK - Orkney 59.6 6 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 50.6 11 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 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 thiv in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gallows Ha - The Weather Dance, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Thiv reel'd, thiv set, thiv crossed an more, on page 29

3 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Thiv reel'd, thiv set, thiv crossed an more on page 155

3 matches

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
2 A’tween the pair o ‘ thum thiv near oan handled mair baws th(2019)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
is family are pure poor cause thiv got aboot ten million weans, on page 51
are aw squint an everythin an thiv jist been papt oot intae the on page 52
id McManus an Murray Hart) an thiv aw got mad spikey hair lik pa on page 75
me the boak. Especially when thiv got big bushy beards an hairy on page 95
he pictures the next night an thiv been thegether ever since. on page 110
Also on pages 151, 158, 169
11 matches

Glasgow

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ful, a call it. Neglect. Aye, thiv tried tae make up fur the mal
1 matches

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