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The word 'mee'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
meeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.2235
ORK - Orkney 168.9 17 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 mee in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
world’s queer but thee and mee, and thoo’re a bit queer’
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Slipan, Sweechan, (harryjosephine.com 2017) Orkney, prose
aekan: the Standard English o mee femlee, an the Orkney langwac
lee, an the Orkney langwach o mee komyoonitee. A nivir fillee a
vools an konsonants fae both, mee aksent orbitan aroon an unpla
ts o the spaekan at’s aboot mee, wharivir A’m at: sumtaims
ir a slippid vool will lat on mee reuts; A hae all the unkin no
16 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
mee ut, "an dan," tocht shö, "wh on page 85

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
nnie. Noo, eis weis majic fur mee, cus we wid offin get aboord on page 7
ma up an chaad ma doon, eit's mee eit hee hid noat, on page 27
hee," thi mannie emsail, at's mee, athocht. A coupul a day's gi on page 31
r?" Aye say's "Yea needna ask mee cus aw car's look's thi saim on page 41

4 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
buddy. Am in Embra the morra, mee(2020)