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The word 'messy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
messyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.91311
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
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 messy in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ttle, sat back and enjoyed my messy garden ???????????? https://t(2019)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane DWAMS, (Tapsalteerie 2024 ISBN: 978-1916214880) Doric, poetry
messy alang the wye on page 19

1 matches

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
d ower yer gless o watter, ye messy wee bisom... and anither thin on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
r the occasion. His stylishly messy warm broon hair compliments t on page 48

1 matches

West Central

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
’s loud, I’m nae. She’s messy, I’m nae. She’s confident
half i time: half neat, half messy. But, she hates it. She’d m
he's loud, I’m nae. She’s messy, I’m nae. We’re just two
3 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Shiz messy aroond thi hoose on page 68

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
blubber intae oil wis a fell messy business an the ards doun at on page 33

1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
auf aware state is guid fir a messy soul like mine. It's a soothi on page 3

1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
m o thaim hae got tattoos, an messy bairds; sum o thaim are wavin
1 matches

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
s of glitter but it wis quite messy, hauf the stuff ended up on t
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
because nicht buses are very messy! X(2015)

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