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The word 'thraan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thraanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4139
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 3
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21.9 2 2
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 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)
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 thraan in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
tween helm, daikles an lines, thraan a flyre atwart her luntit fac on page 106
k aboot Orcadia's histry, the thraan mixter-maxter o fock at biggi on page 123

2 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
anything, buried anunder thraan Ontario prayers. on page 17

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
An ill-thraan man on page 120

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
road-spoken an canny. An he's thraan, sometimes, non-committal, aa on page 7
dinna ken foo ye'r se bliddy thraan aboot it. Ye on page 22
somethin an aa bit, she's as thraan, Ah kent she'd raither dee er on page 61

3 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
@ScotGovScots thrawn or thraan (2020) twitter link

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
k at authority. He wis a real thraan chiel an likit ti mak things on page 53

1 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
it wye ma Grunny wis being so thraan aboot it, but in the end she
1 matches

General Northern

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
verra definite opeenions, an thraan as they come. on page 8

1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
hy-backit, keeps its counsel, thraan.
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
bit yer ain thraan coenscience: noecht. on page 65

1 matches

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