A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'mithir'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mithirOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.6226
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 70.9 16 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
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 mithir in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
I telt her mithir ma prospects wiz fine on page 103
YER MITHIR SHOULD KEN on page 143
See hoo they rin, like yer mithir fae gin, see hoo they flee. on page 144
Greet bairn greet, it yer mithir's feet. on page 172
atchie kine een evein and her mithir skelpit her doup on page 176
Also on pages 188, 202
16 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Me an meh mithir went ti see mi brither on page 78

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Appin Murderer, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, prose
a’, row’d in silk frae ma mithir’s auld scarf, tae gie it a
ched ye off tae Inveraray. Ma Mithir pleaded wi’ me no’ tae ga
2 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
wi nae mithir tae caa on page 62

1 matches

@Angela1Sinclair tweeted
an stuck tae ma hair. Taen ma mithir oors wae swarfega an a brush (2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
sed bae what she lairnt o hir mithir-in-law in France. "She teuk h on page 56

1 matches

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