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The word 'mechanical'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mechanicalOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.22011
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 16 12 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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 mechanical in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
inder cudna haunle fur aa its mechanical clivverness. Shaves cut doon
1 matches

(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
n hale scheps: ivverie teip o mechanical devyse an
1 matches

West Central

Bates, Gregor The Death Dance, (Scots Hoose 2022) Central - East Dunbartonshire, weans
. Joy. Energy. It almost felt mechanical. Robotic. Controlled. The win
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
” Bill telt him. “Onythin mechanical or electrical. Gin it’s fix
ll turn his haun tae onythin mechanical or electronic.”
2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Ma fuckin arse draps as the mechanical hoist bangs doon intae positi
1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
inside it. The machine had a mechanical airm that shot oot wi dreidfu on page 28

2 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
ob,' he said, 'is machines... mechanical shools. We'll hae him oot in on page 21
great caterpillar tractors wi mechanical shools on their front ends ca on page 22
actors!' shouted Mr Tod. 'And mechanical shools! Howk for yer lives! H on page 23

4 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
yer books that are tae dae wi mechanical engineerin. I'm pure intae in on page 39
ked oot a wheen o books aboot mechanical inventions, Klaus got himsel on page 68
," Violet said, "And I'll gie mechanical engineerin a bye. I've a wee on page 81
hocht youse were aw aboot yer mechanical engineerin, and yer animals o on page 84

4 matches

Hershaw, William Eemis Stane 1 - The Laverock’s Nest, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
e the haill field. The coarse mechanical thing could bide whaur it was on page 18

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
tho whiles it reads a bittie mechanical-like in its ootset an wrutten on page 110

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ae Mechanical Engineer (gearbox expert, acc
wi mechanical things. Hei convertit ae auld
2 matches

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