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The word 'thons'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thonsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8169
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
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) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 312.8 11 4
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of thons in Corpus

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Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
Thons ma luve, on page 12

1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
sling yersel intae the night. Thons love. Even Ah kin recognise t
1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@MrsNickyClark Thons a fair decorated house!(2020)

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Thons tha gaime ye afton play. on page 26

1 matches

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Fur thons how A scrieve aa the time. on page 44

1 matches

Bennett, Hazel Tha Near Cut, (Ullans Magazine 2001) Ulster, prose
“Thons a brave muinlicht nicht. A ha
1 matches

@OrangRuth tweeted
speaking Irish in Irishland. Thons a disgrace, so it is.(2019)
lvinstraight1 @AllisonMorris1 Thons quality. I seen it on Perisco(2019)
@trishdevlin Thons fake news. I just called him (2019)
@dingo_1916 Thons Mackerafelt. It's near Bellac(2020)
@molloy1916 Thons a very full bed without the b(2019)
and 1 other occurrences.

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
@raiphsays Thons a quare rackitt Raiph!!! http (2021) twitter link
@Lenniesaurus Thons wheeker! ??????(2020)
@Ultach1014 A whit? Sure thons a Hairy Mary!!! (2021) twitter link

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