A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'thor'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thorOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.2305
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
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
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 34.5 26 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of thor in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
A'm hearin again Thor's cymbals clash, on page 26

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Thor's takkin a lot o selfies dis (2014)

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
n sunshine anely tae discover Thor gart inta a wifie! https://t.(2016)
Dinnae fret a'bidy Thor is a mannie again! https://t.(2016)

General Central

Crichton, Tam Lallans 84 - Ower the Faem Pairt Twa: Doon the Watter, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
n gods, o Sigurd an Fafnir, o Thor an the giants, o Tyr an Garm. on page 55

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
in, 'onie mair o this talk an Thor'll tak yir heid aff.' on page 14

25 matches

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