Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'thirlin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

thirlin	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	2.5	8	6
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	6.3	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.7	2	2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
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	42.2	3	1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of thirlin in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Hershaw, William The Retour O The Grey Airmy, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Fife, blog
wark micht be accomplisht. By thirlin the wolves wi radio collars a
1 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
n the yird ablo an aroun him, thirlin evin hiz dirk an hameart wie
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Eemis Stane 2 - Editorial: A Twa Wey Street, (Eemis Stane 2023) Central, prose
c big brither, an a purportit thirlin-tae wi nationalist shibboleth on page 3

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
thirlin the past an the morra on page 44

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
@ionafyfe @OorVyce Aye, jist thirlin tae a staunnert ??(2020)

General Ulster

Ni Chuilin, Caral Roadin furtae Bring Forrits an Graith tha ULSTER-SCOTCH Leid, Heirskip an Cultur, (Mannystrie o Fowkgates, Airts an Aisedom 2015) Ulster, government
ct 19an98 furtae bigg oan tha thirlin unnèr Richts, Weirin an Joni on page 12
up o ilka patent convenerie's thirlin til guid mellin. on page 46
up o ilka patent convenerie's thirlin til guid mellin. The' cud dae on page 47

3 matches