Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mickey	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	7.7	8.1	13.5	0	0	0	0
Number of occurrences	25	16	9	0	0	0	0
Number of authors	11	9	2

Occurrences of mickey in Corpus

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Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
art o the reason why ah'd the mickey ripped oot o me in the wee sc on page 7

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s a full SP oan who runs this mickey moose operation?" on page 193

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
things that fowk'll takk the mickey. There wis this pub, Bett's B on page 100

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
get a len ae pencil an fuckin Mickey fuckin O'Rourke went an fucki on page 29
sure she had an audience, Wee Mickey O'Rourke knocked Chazza's cha on page 30
up on the flair. Aye nen wee Mickey called me a fat bitch, said C on page 31
he thought she wis takin the mickey oot him on page 118
e boys fae wan R, E, an N, an Mickey O'Rourke went an stole five p on page 133

7 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
s a giant rollercoaster, wi a Mickey Mouse loop, in the middle o t on page 36

1 matches

Steele, Gregor Dinnae Mak Me Laugh, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
A Mickey Moose watch wi a braw siller on page 23

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
gians at Ah wasnae takkin the mickey - the research stertit tae b on page 9

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
he shared toilets, called the mickey by ae character, the closes,
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
n the emotional range o Metal Mickey. Maist o aw, the drone at Num
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ftTours @fairydeanrovers defo mickey mouse outfit - shambles (2021) twitter link

Doric

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 84 - The Ferlie, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
the skelf. It was his freen, Mickey, ahin the coonter, ane o the on page 76
' He was fair ettlin tae tell Mickey the trowth; but he thocht he' on page 77

8 matches

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
a richt orraloon. He's got a Mickey Moose Agri degree fae the SRU (2020) twitter link