A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'mighta'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mightaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7124
ORK - Orkney
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 25.6 10 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 mighta in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
bees. Aye, in another life ah mighta been a professional player an on page 19
pression oan ma puss where ah mighta jist cheated oan ma burd. Wor on page 40
asm in leapin tae his defence mighta been explained by the fact ah on page 70
in his step, and a smile that mighta lit up the Vegas strip. It do on page 115
are lookin fur new recruits. Mighta been interested if ah dianae on page 122
Also on pages 152, 192
7 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
the guy n his family - they mighta picked a better game mind you (2020) twitter link
agree tho a thought spartans mighta ran them close 2 nite - wisn (2020) twitter link
somebody mighta said this game wis oan - get (2021) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
roon her throat; ah think ah mighta actually strangult her if it on page 101

1 matches

General Central

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
0 mins in comeback no37 nite. Mighta been rustier than some mad ru (2018) twitter link