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The word 'thu'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thuOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.43711
ORK - Orkney 59.6 6 3
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 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 32.2 7 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 23.9 18 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of thu in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
and thu'll aal partake on page 5

1 matches

Miller, Alison Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Orkney, poetry
Tak peace on thee, thu're no a tailor yet.' on page 39
I'm thinkan that thu'll both be ferly blide on page 42

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
sayan tae an owld wife, ‘On thu comes’ – never was there
1 matches

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
‘A Soor Ploom. Thu’r a kind o Muggle sweet. Th
’r a kind o Muggle sweet. Thu’r affil good.’
2 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
'Thu'll shurley no sherrick a lass on page 18
to the left side o the bank. Thu'll find on page 23
thu'll be sorry! This is greeting on page 24

4 matches

West Central

Calderwood, Lynsey Lallans 68 - Barlinnie Gradyooits, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
t is, ah said. An ma point is thu hoal famly ur aw nutjobs an a on page 41

1 matches

@annieones tweeted
d is steel hingin aff whiskin thu cream. She telt mae naw eh po (2021) twitter link
aun fur it wae wit a think is thu spellin, an as a learn richt (2021) twitter link
cawin tha shoots.... its us, thu michty people ??.... so dae s (2021) twitter link
attention? Huv ye checked oot thu tories back cataloag? Funny h (2021) twitter link
ate or apple pie, av jist hud thu latter, slurp?? (2021) twitter link

General Central

Foyle, Ghillie Lallans 58 - The Hildebrand Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, poetry
It maitters-na ti me whas kin thu is, on page 87

10 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
no haein yin. Compare Gaelic thu (singular) and sibh (plural)
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
wey tae become citizens when thu've bin brocht intae the kintr(2020)
North? A'body else luiks like thu've bin dragged thru a hedge b(2020)
atment, wi nae thocht fer hou thu'll support thumsels in the fu(2020)
EatUK password last nicht, an thu've emailed me the day sayin A(2020)
ken exactly whit he means (or thu'll think they dae).(2020)
and 2 other occurrences.

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
a ghaist o a chi mi thu fae the Minch, on page 77

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
ike shed ate a fairmer' airse thu a slap in tha hedge!" on page 24

1 matches

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