A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'theres'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
theresOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus33.111012
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 226.7 93 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of theres in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Doric Gruffalo's Bairn, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1785300691) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
Theres a freen o mine that ye hinna on page 21

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2012) Doric - Buckie
grass isna iwis greener, and theres something aboot buckie that m

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
Theres a mannie in yer lobby, Mary-A on page 33

2 matches

General Northern

@daleser23 tweeted
oot gan doon for the weekend. Theres sumin on the sunday ina i thn(2013)
@Poppy_Totti aye i herd theres a few folk gan oot. Ana think(2013)
ay6 @MikeyForbes1 i dina thnk theres a word in the dictionary to d(2014)
ul be too busy tho. Ana think theres full crews on there. Aye ur s(2013)
@RossAndrew7 theres too much things aboot too man(2013)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ut dinna ken far u ken em fae theres only one thing to say; "A ken(2017)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@ajmc1066 theres an excuse fir mr p but am sho (2021) twitter link
outlaw fitbaw matches - noo theres an idea (2021) twitter link
@AlisterWhite where theres a will theres a way ali - n (2020) twitter link
- this is what happens when theres a lack oh grassroots football (2021) twitter link
1867 @NormanMurray10 @HaddAth theres a surprise (2020) twitter link
and 80 other occurrences.

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Music, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
An' though theres a gap tae yir right,
1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth In defence o SNHS, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Theres nae doot some puirly fowk wi
1 matches

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
Theres fuck all mobile aboot ma mum (2020)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Gillen, Charles Whun A’ The Kye Had Names, (Ullans Press 2005) Ulster, poetry
But always theres a crocus kookin’ through th
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
"Theres rats in thonner" on page 18
"Theres rats in thonner'. on page 19

2 matches

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
@cider966 And theres still eejits asking when do t (2021) twitter link