A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'thumps'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thumpsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.554
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 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
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 thumps in Corpus

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General Northern

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Mare shoutin an cairryin on. Thumps, jeers, sweerin, crashes. It on page 60

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
o naewye, a light broon fist thumps ye in the airm and it quickly
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
start up wi a tune, wan that thumps ye in the chest. The accordio on page 3

2 matches

General Central

Love, Rowena M. Lallans 82 - Simmer Strand, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
murl as the drawbrig thumps doon, on page 42

1 matches

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