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The word 'tham'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thamOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13433
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 39.2 12 1
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 153.7 30 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 tham 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.

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
iling - bit fin ye speir tae tham or ask fur help fin they are (2018)
eets unconditionally, play wi tham, dad dance awa faet aa athoot(2018)
teaspeen an ah’m nae giving tham back, an ah’m nae gyan tae c(2018)
well dane tae fa iver pluntit tham. https://t.co/aoV7OYkeCF(2019)
s telt me tae take a picter o tham wi Brendan Cole whilst we wer(2019)
and 5 other occurrences.

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
"Dinnae let tham see yer afflicted, hen" on page 12
Ah think o tham as newlins on page 14
than put aff wearin tham kis Ah dinnae like tham on page 15
sookin tham in on page 17
Ah see tham day an daily on page 20
Also on pages 24, 26, 27, 28, 34, 36, 37, 40, 41, 44, 45, 51, 52, 53
30 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
m within the houssis, I curse tham without the houssis, I curse
1 matches

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