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The word 'mament'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mamentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.2142
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 19.5 8 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 37.2 6 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 mament in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
an foryet hir anxeitie fur a mament.
“Wul ye excaise me fur a mament,” sayed the interrogatar, a
faes at Sellafield this verra mament. He traists me, an tels me o
n Mirren’s thochts, at thon mament.
whitlik happenit neist as the mament at
8 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
ae shank'; an lat him ken the mament he kythit. Aften eneuch, whan on page 5
lfu effek, fur he luikit up a mament, a bittie angirt-lik, afoir h on page 7

2 matches

Forde, Iain W D Traivells wi a Cuddie i the Cevennes (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-5-1) Central, prose
n Modestine's rigg fur hauf a mament. A retoured it til its makkar on page 6

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Chronikil o Scotland (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-3-7) Central, prose
tes. Barbar fair enjosed ilka mament o the vaige, fur he wes pang- on page 43

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Swallae and Amethyst (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2016 ISBN: 978-0-9574164-1-3) Central, prose
peingin an grummillin til the mament whan he died in hiz ain cheir on page 2

1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
devastation aneath him fur a mament afore beatin oan the concrete on page 9

1 matches

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