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thoat Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words32 52.4 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences104104 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors9 9

Occurrences of thoat in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

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Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ortunity. Ma chance, or so ah thoat, fur a wee bit ae redemption. on page 35
that moment, me and him baith thoat. Little did we ken though tha on page 36

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
pick through the bones. Each thoat bringin another feelin ae hop on page 13
dshow the night!" At first ah thoat he wis fuckin wae me, but yin on page 17
anda's, he gave me it when he thoat ah wis gonnae be a someboady. on page 19
athin became shallower and ah thoat ah wis huvin a hert attack ri on page 25
It wis this very piercin thoat playin in the back ae mind li on page 29
Also on pages 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 44, 53, 56, 66, 71, 72, 74, 75, 80, 88, 96, 99, 107, 116, 120, 121, 130, 137, 139, 140, 142, 147, 150, 152, 156, 162, 166, 168, 170, 185, 192, 193
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Calderwood, Lynsey Lallans 68 - Barlinnie Gradyooits, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
Sammy robt thi royal mail. Ah thoat it wis jeenyiss acshully thi on page 41

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Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
Fur a minute Ah thoat thir wia gaunnae be a full-sc on page 44
youse boayes fightin fur, Ah thoat yis wir gaun up the country.' on page 45
h wunner whit the French folk thoat ae him an Tommy; jings, they on page 47

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Evie OOR WULLIE’S SEASON’S GREET, (Largs Writers Group 2015) Central - Largs, prose
enie – pure genius that, Ah thoat. She broat aw soarts a chinge
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
t dinnae gee a fuck. You’da thoat ah’d ate the fuckin Bat mas
And jist when ah thoat hings couldae git anymaire de
t herself wae that, ah swear. Thoat some dirty sweaty Jock hud do
n. She started tae laugh. She thoat ah wis playin some kindae per
4 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
aughin in the side mirror. Ah thoat it wis him. ‘Joe, ma man! W
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ek. Ye should’ve seen them. Thoat they were gonae burst oot gre
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Clyde Built, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
? You the hired help? Ye ever thoat aboot gettin a bloody real jo
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
is. ‘There yer there Danny. Thoat ye were gettin the beers in?â
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
came. ‘Fuckin mone then, ah thoat ah wis gettin it? Come ahead!
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 174, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
an haed lines the likes o 'A thoat A'd sheared aa the sheep' an
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
never that happened, ah alwis thoat the baw looked like a severed
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e an we kin reassess this ill-thoat oot scheme an get tae fuck, p
ldnae get a haud ay him so we thoat we’d cut oot the middle man
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e barely gien it so much as a thoat. It’s just an abstract conc
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
rew wae the band back when we thoat we wur the next big thing. Ba
Scanlon thoat there might’ve been some bl
2 matches

Wallace, Lorna Jock Tamson Goes tae the Doactir, (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2019) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
The thoat o’ seein’ a doactir
He thoat of how affrontit
2 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
never that happent, ah ayewis thoat the baw looked like a severed
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
alyser test. It’s a soberin thoat, likes. Especially when yae c
dignify that suggestion wae a thoat. Never mind a fuckin answer.
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
became that terrified at the thoat ae dyin that he ended up taki
nt ah’m too consumed at the thoat ae ma ain mortality tae even
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
rs’ side. A boay ah’ve no thoat aboot fur a very long time. Y
rds ae a redemption ah second thoat. But now, ken? it’s differe
tear up a wee bit. It’s the thoat that this might well be the p
e diagnosis wis. But it’s a thoat that doesnae last long. Fur i
Blood in the stool? Ah never thoat aboot it at the time. But ah
5 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
the rest ae the show. Yit ma thoat process is quickly zapped by
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
isnae oot tae git me. And the thoat ae livin is startin tae slowl
ay in Scotland. And ah alweys thoat that wis bullshit until theda
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
‘’Ah thoat me and Justine wur gittin him
The thoat ae that cunt Doactur Hill sit
lates. Lickin oor lips at the thoat ae what’s soon tae be enter
3 matches

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