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The word 'thran'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thranOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.22410
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
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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) 232.6 4 3
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 249.8 7 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 229.8 7 2
GUL - General Ulster 85.3 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of thran in Corpus

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General Central

Dornan, Stephen Eemis Stane 1 - Lees an Crams, or Ossian on the Death of Cuchullin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
echtin, he was coorse, he was thran, on page 22

1 matches

Falconer, Gavin Lallans 81 - Scots an Mid-Ulster Inglish, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
rcorrect for scunner), stour, thran (thrawn), wean, an wee. On th
1 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
examples o 'thrawn' but nae 'thran': https://t.co/tk0uIPsFMe (2019) twitter link

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
t. Oblivious thochts, aye, an thran, Drap kicked aff tae Perverti on page 30

1 matches

Warwick, Matthew Fergie an Freens oan tha fairm, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2011) Ulster - Rural Mid-Antrim, weans
pechs Liz. "Boys a dear, ye'r thran lake yer Ma!" siz Wullie. "Th on page 9

1 matches

Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Thran man. on page 43

2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
Oor hairts sae thran, oor heids sae haird on page 17
A glunterpuddin, thran an wee, on page 35
Garravashed in thran battalions on page 38
Noo tha thran an crabbit oul UK, on page 40
tha thran hairt o tha Covenanter? on page 58

6 matches

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
n Ulster was a scoot-hole for thran Covenanters, or a place that
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
dissenters, black-moothed an thran on page 5
s meat gien til sic thrangs o thran? on page 6
Apairt fae Feb'rie, thran an thin. on page 7
Thran Orthydox on page 60

6 matches

@Angelinekking tweeted
na_patane Oh aye! Am quare an thran when it comes to tradition! ?(2020)

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
@LADFLEG They hae aye been a thran wheen o hallions the Scotch, (2015) twitter link
Na - It's aboot time thon thran French hallions learned tae y (2015) twitter link

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
artinmcneely @SeawrightDaniel Thran ;)(2020)