A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'thousands'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thousandsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11713
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 20.1 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 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) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of thousands in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
davidhunt100 I've walked here thousands o times and it gets me every (2020)
at Sumburgh dis afternoon and thousands o guillemots and maalies (ful(2015)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
een when Bob Cooney mobilised thousands tae run Moseley and his fasci (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
he dictionary [DOST] contains thousands of antedatings of Scottish ph
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
llowin bitterness tae set in. Thousands ay gigs, sessions, recordins, on page 3

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Sacrificial Doo, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
dae this, eh? Ah’ve made ye thousands noo, tens ay thousands.’
noo, tens ay thousands.’
Through the caunel light, thousands ay dust particles swirl roon
3 matches

General Central

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 58 - The Rooks, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
Bi thousands ower the French plane, on page 112

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 73 - Waashin Day Weirriors, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
stid aff a fleysome onding bi thousands o youllin Fuzzy Wuzzies, (lik on page 68

1 matches

Macdonald, Ileene Fit’s it aa aboot?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ings involving hundreds, even thousands of people…Scots seem to hav
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
amn hes an arse, he will make thousands of us feel auld ??(2020)

@OliphantWullie tweeted
NP Well, ma faither an tens o thousands o socialist ex miners are the (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
at period! It’s gang oan fur thousands o’ years... those Victorians(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
s (the Carse) over a century. Thousands upon thousands. For livestock(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Thompson, Mark The Lost Ness Monster, (clydesburn.blogspot.com 2009) Ulster - Ards Peninsula, poetry
So he eats thousands o fowk
1 matches

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