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The word 'theirsells'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
theirsellsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.172
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.1 7 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 theirsells in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
like steyin here. Folk divide theirsells in a wee place. If thur's ony on page 1

3 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
they're left ower muckle tae theirsells, jist sittin' their leef-alan on page 9
n at the sea sich a long time theirsells, they hive a feel fur it, an' on page 13
stranger, they'll fecht amung theirsells. The warst tho' is hoo they f on page 32
ae nim. Some o' the very fish theirsells ye darenae ca' by their richt on page 34

4 matches

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