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The word 'threshold'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thresholdOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3147
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 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 78.6 6 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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) 65.7 2 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of threshold in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

General Northern

The Mannie Fae Unco The Diary o a Feel at the Skweel, (unco.scot 2021) Doric, prose
The bad bit wiz gan ower the threshold intae the skweel proper that
a row so very quickly at the threshold I'd close aa waterticht doors
2 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Gee it a threshold, spray it gold on page 37

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
s soon as ah step fit err the threshold ah fuckin projectile vomit aw on page 2

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
er shune steppin oot ower his threshold intae midden shairn - nor wa on page 27
ey morn, as Peden crossed the threshold an beheld a thick mist clampi on page 44
ohn Broun lay deid on his ain threshold, the sodgers fanned oot an sc on page 47
the wicked warld gacin by her threshold ilka day, Bess fele mast safe on page 55
day he cairrit her across the threshold, Jennet had threipit on at hi on page 71
Also on pages 76
6 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
young man stepped inower the threshold tae the daurk lobby sconced a on page 136

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
in they days hud a high pain threshold compared tae us safties.

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
Esther loitered in the threshold atween the front kitchen an t on page 2
h an hope as she stuid on the threshold o Dalriada. on page 32

2 matches

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