A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'thingy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thingyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.586
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 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
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 thingy in Corpus

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General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 76 - Wullie’s Wife: The Hoaspital Veisit, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
ir an tain oot a wee computer thingy wi
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@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
eel done wi thon Balloon dour thingy, bit yi couldnae lace @weeGor(2015)
oot thon karohna splooterin’ thingy min. https://t.co/KwVRVzmDB2(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
d many pish on this yon tweet thingy, bit this utter nonsense that(2018)
Lang before this tinternet thingy ma boab https://t.co/GTWcETKI(2019)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
y rice, and Thai peanut salad thingy. Most stressful thing I’ve d(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
lti task cos the super league thingy hus cropped up! (2021) twitter link

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
no doubt.. Heid plastic block thingy's maker upper.. ??.. Anyhoos, (2022) twitter link