A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'thom'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thomOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.175
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of thom in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
wis, wisna a patch on Beldie Thom’s tho folk are sayin, fitâ€
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
(Recently chynged frae Thom)
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 115, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
hissel an sent in bi Heather Thom, a Scots Tung maimber:-
1 matches

General Central

Eagle, Andy Lallans 67 - Stravaigin the Wab, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
biggit bi the ingineer Robert Thom ower twa year fae 1825, shoud on page 65

1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
it (in English) in his shaw 'Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD'.(2019)
@turlygod Aw Thom! Look at your cheeky wee face(2018)

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
@LisburnReads @WomenAloudNI Thom chairwoman is a nightmare, sp(2020)