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The word 'thurs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
thursOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9166
ORK - Orkney 109.3 11 2
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 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of thurs in Corpus

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Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gallows Ha - Recipe for a Good Storm, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
and thurs a good demmle in the sea. on page 26

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
and thurs a good demmle in the sea on page 52
Thurs no man like Cherlie on page 120

2 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
p fur a pees fairly dried up. Thurs a couple o loose flags at the on page 86
Thurs only a couple o lengths atwee on page 87
Thurs a nugget o blue cheese on page 88
Life is too short and thurs such a lot tae see on page 91
Thurs a hoodie on page 147

8 matches

(South) East Central

Letford, William Bevel, (Carcanet 2012 ISBN: 978 1 84777 192 6) Central - Stirling, poetry
cause thurs too many people
Thurs hunnurs a burds oan the roofs
2 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
ishop100 Last sold ticket fir Thurs #edfringe is here wi me! WHOO(2014)

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
ye, mibbes bit fur ivrey Joak thurs a Jean an ye dinny need tae l(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Douglas, David Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Galloway, poetry
the yin that hud donkeys, noo thurs flats on page 47

1 matches

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