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The word 'mins'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
minsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.22016
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 12 9 7
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 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 mins in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
ubjects. A'm lucky an hae 200 mins/week. (2021) twitter link

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
nae right mentality. But, 7 mins? Goldson arm ball? (2022) twitter link

@daleser23 tweeted
Joris voorn at awakenings. 37 mins in. Oocha(2013)

@Franwella tweeted
am why am I still on hold ten mins efter th call centre operator(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
e rub doon, she comes back 10 mins later wee yon auld wooden bac(2020)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
e rinnin time wis 2 hrs an 15 mins sae wi tickets gaun for £7 (
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
idge hus ever looked n only 5 mins fae ma hoose brother - oh ha (2021) twitter link
20 mins on the news 2 night on the tr (2021) twitter link

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
koned he wid dae it in 3hr 45 mins. He had his Walkman an’ his
1 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
en... Should take us aboot 15 mins tops tae get there... ?? (2023) twitter link

@MartinBroon tweeted
eads like A fit Gaffer for 90 mins wid make the difference.. ???(2019)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
e now have a sub-PO and is 45 mins walk from the centre of town (2020)

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
al. Man sent aff. They had 30 mins to score past 10 men n conced (2018) twitter link
e soccer again wae a solid 40 mins in comeback no37 nite. Mighta (2018) twitter link

@OliphantWullie tweeted
ncy it. Same at Palmerston 15 mins along the road. Enjoy ! (2022) twitter link

@raiphsays tweeted
an @catwoman1979 Me! Aboot 50 mins(2020)

@weenell3 tweeted
AD Awww Stirling Uni is 10-15 mins fae ma door x (2022) twitter link
1.7 in Morrisons Alloa.... 15 mins fae Grangemouth Refinery (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
Starting in 25 mins, please register, lug in, sup (2020) twitter link
tae see recordin but last 10 mins looked grand(2020)