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The word 'mantle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mantleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.12914
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 16 12 7
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 mantle in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
n a hantle ither geegaws frae mantle an press. Minnie wis timmerin
trin luik at the clock on the mantle fin it chingged oot the oor.
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
On the mantle here, stauns a wee braiss bul
the tickin o the clock on the mantle near smored bi the sough o th
nen, fite's a shroud. The wee mantle clock gaed rickety-tick, rick
3 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ghter. Her ee shifted tae the mantle piece abeen the Aga tae the p
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
he kittlin breenged up on the mantle an caad doon
mantle, her back booed like a brig,
mantle. “Ye ken the fowk that bedd
3 matches

(South) East Central

Hershaw, William Lallans 57 - Twa Auld Men, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
m o Fife was caad "a beggar's mantle, fringed wi gowd". But if ye on page 136

1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy No on BBC, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
aa black, syne she flings her mantle ower her shouthers an's awa o
1 matches

Crawford, Ross Awa in a Dwam, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
t the soft leaves ae lady’s mantle, the snell breeze set quaking
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
The mantle o the village artisan on page 28
hes an minds us oan. Nou in a mantle o Scots, he walks amang us ag on page 102

2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Flemings o’ Dalnoid, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
In simmer's green mantle,
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
e sais pickin them up fae the mantle piece, lightin wan.
1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 87 - The Neep Lantern, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Central, prose
'clock, A glued ma een on the mantle clock in the front room an cu on page 22

1 matches

Philip, Andrew Lallans 70 - Fower Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
, the spirlie man in his blae mantle, tongue-tackit and impatient, on page 55

3 matches

Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - Review Lang Syne in the East Neuk o Fife, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
airst o gowd fae the Beggar's Mantle - is it no time that a mains on page 54

1 matches

McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
he kists. "Tak a swatch o yon mantle, did ye iver see a rid sae de on page 63

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
crust the'r a layer cryed the mantle that's driven wi heat an gars
Ablow this atmosphere the'r a mantle o ammonia an methane ices an
ckel-iron. As heat atween the mantle an the hert breks doun methan
n the rocky hert an the grund mantle whaur life micht'a got a ster
4 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
. They teuk upo thaimsels the mantle o the leadership o the Free W
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
nningham_MMM Aye, the beggars mantle ringed wi gowd right enoughuf (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Happin a mantle o nimbus on page 169

1 matches

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