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The word 'muscle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
muscleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.12918
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 37.7 6 3
GLA - Glasgow 27.1 5 4
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 2
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) 65.7 2 2
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of muscle in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"At's aa muscle." He punched a han against is on page 20

1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
, that hid lost the claddin o muscle and flesh. Noo, he wis aa gir on page 51

1 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
sive shooders were hotchin wi muscle. His een were bleezin yella w on page 8

1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
see that Bruce husnae moved a muscle. He's been sat there in the h on page 162
himself though. He's goat his muscle wae him tae. There should be on page 181
s at the back ae the bar. His muscle lappin up the attempts ae pis on page 182
His muscle sniggers. But they're quickly on page 183

4 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
the knees her cauf-muscle bulged like grapefruits insid on page 106

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
r the whale uisin naethin but muscle pouer tae get at the baist. A on page 40
aft had made him a mountain o muscle an nou it wis aw turnin tae f on page 60

2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
’ your lungs, he’rt an’ muscle tae train!
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
r an mair painfully intae her muscle. In the en he wis forced tae
juist wintit thaim for thair muscle pooer - which wad certes be
thick-craigit, thick-heided, muscle-bound alpha male. Whan she ca
. Bit quhan they saw aal that muscle comin at thaim,
4 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ee that Bruce husnae flexed a muscle. The day’s excitement hus c
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
cIntires think he's tryin tae muscle in n they tan him a beaut. Bi on page 9

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Not Scotland, (Edinburgh International Book Festival 2010) Central - Glasgow, prose
. He was a wee guy, packed wi muscle;
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
those steroids ah take fur ma muscle problem huv done me the world
experiencing is the result of muscle and bone inflammation caused
2 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
ers, a too-tight Judas Priest muscle t-shirt, showin aff a multitu
1 matches

General Central

Dornan, Stephen Eemis Stane 1 - Lees an Crams, or Ossian on the Death of Cuchullin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Inablow his oxster through muscle an bane on page 22

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
Earth, cudna thole it. Ivery muscle in her body wis pouin her tow
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
Tightening and relaxing each muscle group? Listening to relaxatio(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
Fae Muscle Clauchan, Stanefauld, Craigie on page 11

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
an that muscle in her neek on page 40
an tryin tae muscle in. on page 68

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Untitled, (twitter 2021) Ulster - Larne, poetry
) Even when ah tore thon calf muscle ah was niver stuck for a yarn
1 matches

@Angelinekking tweeted
st night ended in a torn calf muscle. I'm off the feet for 4-6 wee(2020)

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