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The word 'thousand'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thousandOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81610
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 25.6 5 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of thousand in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
t I saw broke my heart into a thousand shards. Winnie with her airms on page 21

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ta happen. It says in my Iwo Thousand Dreams Decoded, mind dat book on page 51

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
nd has just handed him twelve thousand pounds to write a play about on page 50
ikely to be no more than five thousand pounds. But don't worry. Even on page 52

2 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
‘’There’s seven thousand there, Danny. You know I’m
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
A thousand thre hundyr and the fyft yher on page 129

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
we a thousand hands on page 23
Thi bus is full o a thousand thoughts, on page 38

2 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
"Two thousand an five, that's yir year", I on page 3

4 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
untie tries tae entertain the thousand weans kickin aboot. Ah've los on page 173

1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Three days in October, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
things say there wis a hunner thousand staundin up tae be coontit on
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@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@lewis_goodall Last thousand years is shonky: 1066 wisna 1(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
Near a thousand an hour
1 matches

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