A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mackerel Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.6 0.5 1.6 9.9 23.2 0 4.4
Number of occurrences81 1 1 4 0 1
Number of authors7 1 1 1 3 1

Occurrences of mackerel in Corpus

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Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
ie or a whitin, a herrin or a mackerel an it wisna a crooner or onie
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
bara "Foo nae fish the nicht? Mackerel maybe?" "Aye aa right" on page 15

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Fished mackerel doon at Scapa pier, on page 71

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ct wi young tatties, an fried mackerel, straight oot a da sea. An da on page 62

1 matches

Isbister, Sonny Caves aroond Shetland, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
ere dey fun a graet big box o mackerel but da mackerel must’ve bee
but da mackerel must’ve been magic because
2 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ked in da fish factory packin mackerel. And it maks me think o da ge(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
awrightDaniel A brave wheen o mackerel an lythe! https://t.co/drQs0B(2020) search twitter