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The word 'thoats'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thoatsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4131
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 15.2 6 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 43.8 7 1
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 thoats in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
kin focus oan is the troublin thoats which are circlin aroond ma h on page 13
very passin minute ah find ma thoats driftin oaff intae the realms on page 80
These workin-class hero thoats disappear when the voice come on page 81
wis never yin fur keepin his thoats oan the matter tae himsel. Th on page 95
wid be a gid time tae git his thoats oan suttin that hus been nigg on page 96
Also on pages 186
6 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
h take a moment tae gather ma thoats. Tryin and failin tae make se
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
eet fails tae derail the dark thoats racin through ma mind. Like t
ued wae even maire irrational thoats than ever before. And before
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
nt ma paranoid and irrational thoats intae overdrive. The wee guy
only ma increasingly deranged thoats fur company.
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ke bein repeatedly knifed. Ma thoats might be paranoid but that do
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ma send oaff, n aw that. Oor thoats quickly turn tae the yin pers
1 matches

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