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The word 'mild'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mildOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.3409
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 141.8 32 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
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 mild in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gallows Ha - The Weather Dance, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Wednesday I whistled up mild winds, a gentile gust on page 28

1 matches

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Wednesday I whistled up mild winds, a gentle gust on page 154

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Haggis tasting notes, and whisky pairings, (Brisk Northerly 2019) Orkney, blog
Mistlethrush. The flavour is mild – as haggises go – but ri
1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
r-blues, black. She detects a mild incredulity in me expression
1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
whaar hit sleepit da mild winter sleep on page 111

1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Is a pint o' mild better 'an bitter? (bitter) on page 130

3 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Sae affa mild, richt bonny sinny day,
Day sae fine an affa mild,
Beyond belief, day is fine an mild,
Still sae affa quait an mild as weel,
Day turns oot mild, warm, an braw,
17 matches

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
Mornin starts aff sae mild again,
Fine an mild wi warmth in o the air.
mair the day is affa fine an mild.
Fin we rise it's fine an mild again.
Mild is the day wi a bit o sinhine
10 matches

@cligeey tweeted
istoric_Ally @DundeePoet Affa mild here ina https://t.co/EUkdmMV(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ae her name. Wid transform ma mild mannered faither intae resemb on page 87

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
at the back-en, an pray for a mild winter an a guid crap o lambs on page 50

1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Killed that mild an gentle man, on page 35

1 matches

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