A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'ment'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mentOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41811
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
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 17.7 4 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 31.9 3 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
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 ment in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
-(i)ment (maks abstract entities): pla on page 42

2 matches

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
ocht he wid hed fir hame. Dat ment avoidin dizens o muckle, blac
1 matches

General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
@mattcoull1903 Wiz ment fur me loon. Jist needin cock(2020)

@daleser23 tweeted
esday. Fuckin nightmare like. Ment to be gan oot tae ma mam n da(2013)
ma plan. The driller here wiz ment to be awa to spain iday. Kca (2013)
. I dina even kane how we are ment to play. Nae pace, nae clue. (2014)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@Brian_Pacey @ELCouncil aye a ment tae tell u - they didnae lik (2021) twitter link
ment tae say as well - really enj (2020) twitter link

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
whut eh really ment. on page 56
it's no ment ti offend yi on page 72

3 matches

General Central

Beckett, Mavis Duncan Lallans 59 - Auntie Aggie, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
rrae Zoological Society. That ment she cuid dyne at the zoo. Coo on page 118

1 matches

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
didnae ken if this Sidhe Lord ment her guid er ill.
1 matches

@raiphsays tweeted
@EDunn32 A kno.. a wis ment tae go in June an a change it(2020)
A wis ment tae fly tae Germany fer 3 wee(2020)

South East (Borders)

@cammyrudkin tweeted
net_2011 @wullies1903 a wusni ment ti say out. E wul hav ti ask (2012)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
@rebecca_glen yir ment to shit in the toilet no yir (2012)