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The word 'mom'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
momOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1138
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 1
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 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
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 mom in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
r wan. We're fur the toon the mom. on page 33

1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
h a joy! When I was peerie my mom told me da fairies blotted di(2020)
minded dat I had a delivery o Mom's mince and totties dastreen.(2014)
tters @GeorgeMWME Me too, fae Mom and Dad's. https://t.co/gkG9J(2020)
My Mom saw two humpbacks fae the win(2013)

Mid Northern A

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
It’s wark, wark, wark frae mom ti nicht. Iss momin, efter e
1 matches

General Northern

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
herwise. In the draawin o his mom, he taks a broon colourin pen
ootside the court. Justin’s mom is there, standin slightly aw
2 matches

@cligeey tweeted
Telt ye Collums mom for them(2020)

(South) East Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
sae I hae friens aw ower the mom.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@htafc19 @LEAFA_Official mom says it awe - pass oan ma be (2020) twitter link
ne to the real craig gordon - mom 2 nite - not the dodgy one f (2020) twitter link

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
johnsons ....especially as my mom and dads deaths were smoke re(2015)