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The word 'thowts'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thowtsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.7158
ORK - Orkney 139.1 14 7
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
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 thowts in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
epest o sleeps, block oot the thowts in yer heid. And, Bessie, muc on page 23

1 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
aas, notheen's further fae me thowts than things at Binnatoon. on page 10
I think ah'm hivvan second thowts. This place is no fur me. on page 11
Hid wis then that his thowts on the maitter cam very clear on page 60
When thowts o her premature passeen Come on page 66
trees o Bockan And whisper me thowts tae the sky. on page 67

5 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Thowts in his heed muttered oot lood on page 23
And yer thowts hiv run amuck on page 122

2 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
bit wir thowts will be taegither. on page 119

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
epest o sleeps, block oot the thowts in yer heid. An, Bessie, much on page 77
Summer Thowts on page 130

2 matches

Leonard, Ingrid Northwords Now 43 - Ingrid Leonard, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Orkney, poetry
wi thowts o voices that teemed thi air, on page 18

1 matches

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
hat voted and mibbee hear the thowts o Reevlers aboot this. Is ‘

@HJosephineGiles tweeted
ken thee, blyde tae ken thee thowts an soonds an wirds.(2020)

General Central

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
t o smaw lown tae heez birlin thowts. As hae lay in the sair mirk, on page 119

1 matches

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