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Use in varieties of Scots

ment Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.8 4.8 6.4 0 17.4 21.9 0
Number of occurrences189 4 0 3 2 0
Number of authors11 5 2 2 2

Occurrences of ment in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
whut eh really ment. on page 56
it's no ment ti offend yi on page 72

3 matches

Beckett, Mavis Duncan Lallans 59 - Auntie Aggie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
rrae Zoological Society. That ment she cuid dyne at the zoo. Coo on page 118

1 matches

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
didnae ken if this Sidhe Lord ment her guid er ill.
1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
@EDunn32 A kno.. a wis ment tae go in June an a change it(2020) search twitter
A wis ment tae fly tae Germany fer 3 wee(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@Brian_Pacey @ELCouncil aye a ment tae tell u - they didnae lik (2021) twitter link
ment tae say as well - really enj (2020) twitter link

Doric

@beast_afc tweeted
@mattcoull1903 Wiz ment fur me loon. Jist needin cock(2020) search twitter

@daleser23 tweeted
esday. Fuckin nightmare like. Ment to be gan oot tae ma mam n da(2013) search twitter
ma plan. The driller here wiz ment to be awa to spain iday. Kca (2013) search twitter
. I dina even kane how we are ment to play. Nae pace, nae clue. (2014) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
-(i)ment (maks abstract entities): pla on page 42

2 matches

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
ocht he wid hed fir hame. Dat ment avoidin dizens o muckle, blac
1 matches

Southern

@cammyrudkin tweeted
net_2011 @wullies1903 a wusni ment ti say out. E wul hav ti ask (2012) search twitter

@jamie_ginger tweeted
@rebecca_glen yir ment to shit in the toilet no yir (2012) search twitter