A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'melon'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
melonOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
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 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 melon in Corpus

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General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
an helped yoursel tae a bit o melon. Michty the lassie wis fer en
1 matches

(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
hainge shape like that. A wee melon slice. Then gettin fatter eve on page 1

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
table wi a grin the size ae a melon plastert tae her coupon; Kell on page 29

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
an, cut suhin in hawf. Like a melon urr a pineapple, that wid be on page 172

1 matches

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
er if he wantit ginger wi his melon...an him replyin Naw, Ray Wil(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
yer face is swelt oot like a melon. And you think you can pay wi (2022) twitter link