A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'missan'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
missanOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.862
ORK - Orkney 59.6 6 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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 missan in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Hunts fur the missan lesson books, on page 23
I felt I wis missan notheen and me view on the su on page 43

2 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
an solder intae machines, missan the clashan, thinkan on page 16
ntil sheu'd fiegured whit wis missan an tirled the soond o her pod on page 44
the Hoose. Noor feels sheu's missan somtheen important but feels on page 88

3 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
the sun gied doun. A’ll be missan the islan lift: i the city, t
1 matches

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