A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

thoor Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 0 0 99.4 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences110 0 10 0 0 1
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of thoor in Corpus

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Orkney

Baikie, R. M. Mair Fairming Tales, (Baikie 2000 ISBN: 978-0953156412) Orkney - Hackland, prose
"Thoor gittan too high beuy!" the ma on page 70
him aaf, deu beuy cheus whut thoor bidden"" on page 79

2 matches

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Thoor comeen wrowt a change in me - on page 27

1 matches

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Thoor sittan on an ashet white on page 116

3 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
@Lenniesaurus Thoor daein jist grand! Ah'm fair e (2020) twitter link
wart_Bain I doot you hiv, an' thoor in deep doo doo. A peedie off (2021) twitter link
@MarjoleinR Yins fair enogh. Thoor daean a spot on job promotin (2021) twitter link
the allure for sittan tinkan. Thoor no o the Isle ir thoo?(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Gillen, Charles Whun A’ The Kye Had Names, (Ullans Press 2005) Ulster, poetry
lossie an’ oul Daisy knowed thoor stan’.
1 matches

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