A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'mic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
micOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.586
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of mic in Corpus

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Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
58 mic ower the top banister an doon on page 7

1 matches

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
as part o the Fittie Bar open mic nicht! Here's a snippet "fit (2018)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
nd up really skinny and anae. mic and that's what causes dietar on page 88

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
rmally goat an auld fashioned mic set up on page 2
ig Tara,' he says, cuppin the mic wi wan hawn an stickin the ot on page 6
it's nae good, Huey draps his mic an runs fur the safety ae beh on page 27

3 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
s on the boat. Murphy, wi the mic an PA seistem he obviously ne
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
me maist welcome tae take the mic! :)(2020)