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The word 'thone'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thoneOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2144
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 15.5 6 1
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 36.3 3 1
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 thone in Corpus

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General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
'Thone loon wisnae a natural Tattie on page 118

1 matches

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
‘People were poorer in thone days,’ says Broon, ‘but t
1 matches

(South) East Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
funny hoo thone toffs feel the need o' their on page 17
icht, an' he jist looks it me thone weiy. Ye see ye micht feel th on page 22
saw him, he was aye lauchin' thone wety, as if ocht cud be richt on page 26
f we wis the type tae spik aw thone fancy stuff, Ah suppose we'd on page 28
ind she lookit me up an' doon thone wey, like she did tae onybody on page 29

6 matches

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
Bit thone supermarkets huv nae peer.
’ awfa pally Ye flutter’t thone big eyelashes et me Fair invi
he rarest treat Noo, efter aw thone tippy tappy It takes an awfy
3 matches

South East (Borders)

The Westender Ins and oots, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
keet Nardini's ice cream. Was thone no the best? Taddies hed cafÃ
r es slang es a can remember. Thone food is right popular. (a nea
Div ee mind o' the Red Rose? Thone was afore oo hed an Indian bi
3 matches

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