A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'mack'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mackOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.9238
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
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 39.9 9 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 24.4 10 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 mack in Corpus

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General Northern

McGregor, Iain Lallans 78 - Scots Teegars, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Doric, prose
muckle clockers an a swairm o mack-flees tae find the bodie. In on page 80

1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
I mack sure I get a my coal for ma f(2016)
ying the Dons up in Aberdeen, mack sure ye nip in tae the Fittie(2016)
man Aye I think so bit didnae Mack the short list(2017)
s oot. Jist need yon wife tae mack up the sannies! Slainte tae o(2017)
Up bricht n early the day tae mack the best o’the day, well bes(2018)
and 2 other occurrences.

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
werin een o the weedae, “Mr Mack haes haed a fùll coorse o tr
“Mr Mack is nae danger tae the communi
Mr Mack wins hame fae the ospital an
Mr Mack haed cowpit a muckle tin o pa
hauns, stops whan she sees Mr Mack staunin thare, an lifts a fin
9 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
tta b a wee trip tae the toni mack the nicht - bring it oan n m (2021) twitter link

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
ext wesna publisht or Douglas Mack pit it oot twantie year syne) on page 116

1 matches

@annieones tweeted
lang legs, jist #fakenews to mack a sentence with latest wurds. (2021) twitter link

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
er Watch out Glendarroch: Mrs Mack haud on tae yer hat!!!(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
text 'The Testament of Gideon Mack': https://t.co/TTkq47aYpa #Sc (2018) twitter link