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The word 'thaw'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thawOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9138
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 22.2 5 1
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
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 thaw in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
wards nicht wither begins tae thaw.
Gran day, later on wither dis thaw.
2 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Thaw in o the air blue sky up abee
Is it frost or mebbe it's thaw,
Is that frost? Or mebbe thaw.
3 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
But there’s a thaw lourin. Tourism in Scotland l
1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
Mebbe if we warm it up, it'll thaw oot an we can get it tae lie on page 60

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
sayed Kamile, “quhan the thaw comes.”
The spring thaw begoud, an preparations got u
2 matches

General Central

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
wi the cauld, will thaw oot by her stove. on page 95

1 matches

Le Marie, Nicole Lallans 102 - Daffs, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
draws the thaw afore us; on page 77

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Patient till the thaw relieves on page 15

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
k up tha trd for a bide-a-wee thaw on page 30

1 matches

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