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Use in varieties of Scots

mob Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words8.4 10.3 9 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences2720 6 0 0 1 0
Number of authors17 12 4 1

Occurrences of mob 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.

Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
are fuckin listenin tae this mob. When ah listen ae Huey singi on page 3

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ay goat set aboot oan by this mob. Accordin tae what ah read th on page 69

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
sels is somethin it seems the mob hadnae considert, such wis th on page 27
Last night, a mob, I'm sure twa score. on page 115

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
an Yvonne call them the Snob Mob. We call Linsey the Celebrity on page 169

3 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
irmin polis fauld the sweirin mob on page 14

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Witnesses or the Hare Krishna mob, maist folk didnae gi’e the
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
e I let anybody fly me over a mob of them. Imagine them managin
1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
he next round we stuffed some mob frae Iceland called Akraness,
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
like he’d been jumped by a mob ae heidcases. And, ah must sa
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
@antanddec tried it via ma mob, but links tak forever tae lo(2015) search twitter

@MartinBroon tweeted
knew aboot this.??. See, Oor Mob keep Us right up tae date! Fi(2020) search twitter
Well it’s obvious whit mob the NL bloke that pit this oo(2020) search twitter
. Whit if it’s that maryhull mob....??. ????????. ????(2020) search twitter

@rattlecans tweeted
ars... so I suppose this Tory mob of anti-democracy nutters wil (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ylor1 ffs - the radio rental mob r oot lol (2020) twitter link
time to get in about this var mob - b oan lfc (2020) twitter link
a go too - probably the same mob (2020) twitter link

Doric

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
Nicol, non-partisan among the mob that day, remembers thus; on page 118

3 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
deeunitedfc PPV and yon manky mob o weegies are gettin a freebi(2020) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
P Confused wee the Buck hoose mob scattered roon the country(2020) search twitter

@McGoo1888 tweeted
boring as feck...Queensferry mob..a huge spider ran across mah (2021) twitter link

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
e, exact same language of the mob as aw the rest. Sheep. No bou(2020) search twitter