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The word 'thunk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thunkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4114
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 26.2 8 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
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 thunk in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
saif an strong, weel biggit, thunk's tae, "Mr Stevenson." Ma leg on page 4
er a haanfae a sweeties, "Aye thunk's fur aat Jim," we said eit t on page 12
eputable Peterheed carpenter. Thunk goodniss fur at oneywuiy. We on page 18
thi berth o thi Heather Joy. "Thunk eih Poap fur aat," a thocht e on page 29
ee weis jist stairren eit ma. Thunk gweedness fur Zoink, cus he g on page 40

5 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Nellie. She wis phonin te thunk ye fir the flooers an caird a on page 26
"Thunk the Lord fir at," said Ronnie on page 49
"Thunk Christ fir at!" said Ronnie, on page 56

3 matches

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
t, but it wis mair like a dry thunk.
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
t, but it’s mair like a dry thunk.
1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
an the thunk o a fur-yowe, it's still on page 11

1 matches

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