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The word 'thot'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thotOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6215
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 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 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 38.4 15 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
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 thot in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
d cin introdyeus wirds an the thot o ritan Orkney langwach tae b
1 matches

General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
aw that online. Boost like. I thot aboot that but im gan to hae (2013)

@Franwella tweeted
ouiseNicol1 no nae at a. jist thot i quite fancied ane we ma big(2012)
Thot I'd pissd masel.......it's ma(2011)
Thot 2day wiz Thursday :-( x(2011)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ely think - poosies lol jist thot ad throw this in likes! (2021) twitter link
_Pacey @HaddAth a bet the dog thot it wis funny when ee clapped (2020) twitter link
@Brian_Pacey a thot so lol - ad luv tae hae a no (2021) twitter link
d its good to see but a never thot ad see the day auchinleck tal (2020) twitter link
asondalgliesh1 @pencaitlandfc thot u lads hud a game arranged m8 (2020) twitter link
and 10 other occurrences.

General Central

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
@linda8h Aye, well a thot a hid run oot and it wiz gonn(2020)