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The word 'thirldom'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thirldomOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
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 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 2
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)
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 thirldom in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 76, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
icht an mirk), imperialism an thirldom.
1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
ase oo dree a life o dule and thirldom: that is the plain trowth.
oncernt wi is a taiken o your thirldom. Can ye no unnerstaund that l
2 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
ife o an animal is misery and thirldom: this we aw ken. on page 6

3 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
Naebody shal be hauden in thirldom or slavery; slavery and the s
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
tholin the shame o ma thirldom.
1 matches

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