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The word 'michta'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
michtaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.274
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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 michta 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
n shut aff thi gass afore aat michta blew up next. Weel we funnoot on page 9
ang busk, bit kennen heis, we michta ennit up smakken doon ona thi on page 10
eit oney feersum speed's, we michta jist jenaraytet aboot sax or on page 55

3 matches

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ncle jimmy at mayfield - ees michta said lol (2020) twitter link

Glasgow

@johnstone_shane tweeted
cution Thon wisnae sarcastic, michta seemt it. (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
s fleein atween them. Somehin michta been said aboot hoorish skirt on page 76

1 matches

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Nuhin is Certain, Except, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
this stuntin doonpour that it michta been a bit optimistic (dare A
1 matches

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