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The word 'mattress'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mattressOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.61811
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 59.3 5 2
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 32.6 6 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 mattress 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.

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
can't speak. Then I feel the mattress sink as he moves onto it. And on page 85

1 matches

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
room, she has a spare single mattress laid oot on the livin room fl
ellin her aa aboot this dream mattress she jist hid tae buy. Well, n
ein back oot the bank tae the mattress mannie. Ma Da wis sure that c
chance tae even sit up on ma mattress.
4 matches

The Flying Pigs There’s nae reassurance over national insurance, (Press and Journal 2022) Doric, newspaper
ime my pal Big Sonya stored a mattress stuffed wi cash in my spare r
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Fin it came tae a mattress o the bed Stanley said. "Aye
1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
, an landed on a soft stinkin mattress, which smelt o stale pee an s on page 21

2 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
ng that bad the springs in ma mattress were pinging oot and skelping on page 38
y fae the burst springs on ma mattress and then went tae get them so on page 40
o, in ma bedroom, between the mattress and the dugs. A dinnae know w on page 41

3 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Totally Princessy Princess, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central - Glasgow, weans
oued aw the sheets, duvet and mattress aff the bed. Then she pit a w on page 12

1 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
t seemed like forty then - a mattress jist in case an mebbe shaggin
ae been ablo the bank, bi the mattress. Ah couldnae see a light. Meb
2 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
in unner yer feet like a saft mattress. On hot, dry days he lies the on page 16

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
. It wis aboot the size o the mattress he sleepit on at hame. on page 145

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
d widden flair, but the bed's mattress wis that lumpy that ye couldn on page 28

1 matches

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