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The word 'mosst'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mosstOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus16.5533
ORK - Orkney 99.4 10 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 1512.1 43 1
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 mosst in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
wan o this futurs is bruckit mosst? on page 38
t langsinsyne, nae bother fer mosst o space, like jacks an limb e on page 90
k an noo a mense o Light, the mosst fer months, jeust whan sheu c on page 106
he poly taen fae the reuf, an mosst o the dwangs an aa: liftid ba on page 107
tan oot equaetions, rypan the mosst obscure o airticles ithe laes on page 133
Also on pages 139, 157
7 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
yap shite the wey mosst ither fock dae. on page 23
seemed a mosst ancient set-up: an abandoned on page 30
As if the mosst affectionate thing on page 34

3 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
time?" she sade oot loud. "A mosst be gettan somewhere near e mi on page 9
funny feelan!" sade Alice; "A mosst be shuttan up lek a telescope on page 13
ll trouble masel aboot ee: ee mosst manage e best way ee can-but on page 15
t's all wrong, A'm certain! A mosst hev been changed for Mabel! A on page 18
hev done at?" she thoucht. "A mosst be growan peedy again." She g on page 19
Also on pages 20, 21, 23, 25, 26, 28, 29, 36, 37, 38, 41, 50, 57, 61, 63, 82, 88, 89, 92, 94, 96, 100, 109, 110, 111, 112, 115, 116, 117, 118
43 matches

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