A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'msm'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
msmOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.1292
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 297.4 28 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 msm in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
cheenged muckle ava. Tae the MsM naethin they ivver did cuid b on page 9
mind whit Wee Shoutie an the MsM (a name fer a band whause tun on page 11
utility is even somethin the MsM cuid spell), an politicians, on page 37
o the fowk o Scotland bi the Msm this past few year. The thing on page 41
t awa wi it as the rest o the MSM are jist as sleekit an virule on page 49
Also on pages 50, 51, 54, 55, 59, 61, 73, 78, 93, 109, 112, 113, 120, 127, 130, 138, 140, 146
28 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
@NUFCgallowgate Nae wonder, MSM are full o’ gobshite and pis(2020)