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The word 'throwback'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
throwbackOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.622
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 throwback in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Throwback tae dat time I met an spak wi (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
til its deid. A very welcomed throwback memory tae his puppy days, li
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