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Use in varieties of Scots

mickle Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.9 3.5 3 0 0 31 4.8
Number of occurrences137 2 0 0 3 1
Number of authors8 4 2 1 1

Occurrences of mickle in Corpus

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Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
Makkin a muckle o a mickle
haund at makkin a muckle o a mickle. She wad tak the bittie o bee
2 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
efinitely kent that ‘many a mickle maks a muckle’ and said ‘
1 matches

@iainnicol tweeted
in_perrin Four men? Thon’s a mickle fridge!(2020) search twitter
Interestin. I clear like hae mickle tae lear.(2020) search twitter

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
glasscot Aye weel thare's gey mickle ither thing tae lowp (no Spel(2020) search twitter
he nae seein fowk, forbye the mickle groups I gang tae for tae soc(2020) search twitter

Doric

Smith, Derek Northwords Now 43 - Derek Smith, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
sic a torrent in the noo mickle rin on page 18

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Mony a mickle maks a muckle! #oldsayings #S(2017) search twitter

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
th muin, an mindin hings, an mickle-ee ken ee say 'mony a mickle on page 74

3 matches

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
ld boss used to say ‘manys a mickle makes a muckle.’ Is that may(2020) search twitter