A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

meyn Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.2 0 31.7 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences230 21 0 2 0 0
Number of authors2 1 1

Occurrences of meyn in Corpus

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Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
A meyn fin a wis a bairn, aboot eich on page 1
e, on een o hee's sheyft's. A meyn eit weis aboot ten aclock eit on page 4
hung aboot we a gweed frecn o meyn caad, "Baggy." Noo, Baggy wei on page 9
julim an maid work sairrer. A meyn aly day we weis cummen ashore on page 18
joy weis twa great freen's o meyn i.e. The skipper weiss, "Aik on page 19
Also on pages 29, 32, 37, 41, 46, 50, 51, 61, 64, 65
21 matches

Shetland

Sinclair, Lise Juist laek Maunna, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, poetry
I mind da meyn stuid stivvened wi saut
– da meyn wir laekly seec o da sitht o
2 matches

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