A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'meh'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mehOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus61.21967
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 1975.4 186 3
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.4 7 1
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 meh 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.

General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
ae, sae muckle like a sheepie-meh at Ailice fair gat a gliff. on page 69

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
n guid Scots fae Jim Malcolm. Meh day wis made whin Jim sang oo
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
An meh mither, jist because shiz meh on page i
let me, tak yir life inta meh hands on page 1
o there bro, keep on comin ti meh front door on page 2
Christ, ed rip meh breeks rite aff meh hurdies on page 3
As yi gee meh pulse a clatter an a wallop on page 5
Also on pages 6, 10, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 30, 34, 38, 39, 41, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 54, 56, 57, 58, 59, 63, 65, 67, 68, 75, 76, 77, 78, 82, 84, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 109, 110, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118, 121
183 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
Suddenly there wis a cry, 'Meh Goad, look.' on page 93

1 matches

Matthews, Lily A SPARK O INSPIRATION, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
erin in the win’ as ah made meh wye tae th’ gates oan the i
“Meh dug,” she replied. “Eh ca
2 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
but Heydrich hus meh shooder on page 41
an oot o meh sicht on page 62
an eh tuke aff meh jaikit on page 63
yer swoert pleyt rem-stem i meh haan. on page 65
owre meh fuddilt cley on page 67

7 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
age Eh dinnae ken aboot thon. Meh peh micht disagreh.(2020)