A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'messed'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
messedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.899
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
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
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 messed in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
haerd her offiece wis horrid messed on Thirday by. Hid's somtheen on page 96

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
@shetlandnature I doot it was messed up long afore. Odds are no gr (2020) twitter link

General Northern

Philip, George Luikin Back, (Jas Gaesham 2008 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Doric, prose
ed, ma intimmers apened and I messed the nether bed sheet.This wis on page 6

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Messed up, blew up, on page 23

1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
ane. Dinnae lik the soun o a messed-aboot-wi buttrie bit. https:/(2020)

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
live in the hoose. When Cathy messed up hur gleamin flair, she bat on page 80

1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
the messages, no wi yer face messed up like that. Suppose that'll (2022) twitter link

@Sinethugcat tweeted
llowed tae say ye hink NS has messed up wioot bein decried a 'trai (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
’ horror it happened. A had messed masel.
1 matches

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