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The word 'mob'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mobOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.32717
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 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 3
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 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 mob in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
boring as feck...Queensferry mob..a huge spider ran across mah (2021) twitter link

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
Nicol, non-partisan among the mob that day, remembers thus; on page 118

3 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
deeunitedfc PPV and yon manky mob o weegies are gettin a freebi(2020)

@cligeey tweeted
P Confused wee the Buck hoose mob scattered roon the country(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ay goat set aboot oan by this mob. Accordin tae what ah read th on page 69

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Witnesses or the Hare Krishna mob, maist folk didnae gi’e the
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ylor1 ffs - the radio rental mob r oot lol (2020) twitter link
time to get in about this var mob - b oan lfc (2020) twitter link
a go too - probably the same mob (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
an Yvonne call them the Snob Mob. We call Linsey the Celebrity on page 169

3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
sels is somethin it seems the mob hadnae considert, such wis th on page 27
Last night, a mob, I'm sure twa score. on page 115

2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e I let anybody fly me over a mob of them. Imagine them managin
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
like he’d been jumped by a mob ae heidcases. And, ah must sa
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
are fuckin listenin tae this mob. When ah listen ae Huey singi on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
irmin polis fauld the sweirin mob on page 14

1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
he next round we stuffed some mob frae Iceland called Akraness,
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
@antanddec tried it via ma mob, but links tak forever tae lo(2015)

@MartinBroon tweeted
knew aboot this.??. See, Oor Mob keep Us right up tae date! Fi(2020)
Well it’s obvious whit mob the NL bloke that pit this oo(2020)
. Whit if it’s that maryhull mob....??. ????????. ????(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
ars... so I suppose this Tory mob of anti-democracy nutters wil (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
e, exact same language of the mob as aw the rest. Sheep. No bou(2020)