A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'mistaken'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mistakenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
ORK - Orkney
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 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of mistaken in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
hopin tae fuck ah wis in fact mistaken. on page 133

1 matches

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
e, and he realises that he is mistaken. He says, “Please, miss: wh
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
said, 'that ye're completely mistaken aboot Matilda pittin a stink- on page 80

2 matches

@annieones tweeted
country an laid?? a could be mistaken, but it seems yer ashamed. Ke (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
didas Tango Kick if ah’m no mistaken - standard eighties fare.
1 matches

General Central

@ionafyfe tweeted
@Historic_Ally I think ye’ve mistaken me for @donaldson_shona who w(2020)