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The word 'massel'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
masselOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.1406
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 23.2 9 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 124 20 3
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.4 11 3
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 massel in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
. Ah'm sittin here hinkin tae massel: "Jist gee up, ma wee pal. Yo on page 14
ple ae other writers who like massel, huv strayed awey fae the flo on page 47
ed wae anxiety. Sae unsure ae massel that yae wid hink ah'm aboot on page 48
er said it. Ah instantly find massel practically nose tae nose wae on page 51
Jesus fuckin Christ, ah tell massel. It really is bams like him w on page 52
Also on pages 53, 86
7 matches

Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
oat ah’d ate the fuckin Bat massel. It’s actually boggin the w
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
aff tellys or phones, ah tell massel. Yit what we find starin back
1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
y the half-wey stage ah foond massel prayin fur a fitbaw question. on page 35
that ah could change it aw by massel. Withoot his help. And now th on page 36

2 matches

Capener, Jack No Guid Eneuch, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
Whan A massel first stertit reconneckin wi
the government. A thocht tae massel, "Jings, wir leid's futur sha
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
even speed walkin, and, like massel, seem shoart oan time. The re
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
e fid chain in Edinburgh than massel. A rare instance ae hope whic
Ah wis guilty ae such cruelty massel. Ah mind ah spiked the fastes
Ah finally clean massel up and come back oot the bath
3 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
And yince ah’ve finally git massel oaff toilet ah go through int
masel rid meat. Insteed, fur massel, ah’ve favoured a boggin he
ing up fae ma seat and excuse massel in the hope ah kin pull it th
ur a sure sign that ah’m no massel and ah’m terrified that ahâ
4 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
laptop again. Ah need tae git massel a clearer understandin ae ma
tame. Before too long ah find massel in Dougie’s neck ae the wid
A shoart while later ah find massel sittin in a dark room. Thereâ
buds. Jist as ah’ve poured massel another drink and knoacked it
ae whiskey. Ah casually pour massel a toap up.
7 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
h couldnae huv said it better massel, son’’
1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
e it but when A try an dae it massel, it juist disnae wark oot.' on page 41

1 matches

@Cobradile94 tweeted
an that ither naitves, sic as massel, are juist uisin Scottish Eng(2019)
yJosieGiles Weel, A'm asexual massel, an A'm personally votin fur (2019)
ist feinisht readin that buik massel! Guid read!(2018)
wantit tae dae some fulmmakin massel!(2020)
A coudnae hae pit it better, massel. https://t.co/6KUkukg1p8(2020)
and 2 other occurrences.

@jack_capener tweeted
Luve massel a guid mercat cross! https://(2019)
tland Aye, it's a new yin tae massel anaw. Hear it plenty in Glasg(2019)
Aye! A dinnae stey in Glesga massel sae wadnae ken local names fi(2019)

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