A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mums Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.7 2.5 1.5 0 0 31 0
Number of occurrences95 1 0 0 3 0
Number of authors7 4 1 2

Occurrences of mums in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
seemed tae pit a smile oan ma mums face. Efter ah hud ma apple p on page 197

1 matches

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
Neep mums scaulded their bonnie wee nee on page 15

1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
Those mums..... us wee plebby weans wid (2022) twitter link

@changed_days tweeted
and tried tae say it was his mums new washin powder! For 7 year (2021) twitter link

Doric

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
Mums teen turns tae hing oot the c
1 matches

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
fuck do a get mum and dad. O mums hers a candle. O dad hers and(2018) search twitter

@StuartPoet tweeted
ms ideal for weans, teachers, mums, dads, papas, grans and aabod(2020) search twitter
onfusion. Dinnae forget sheep mums who might be struggling in th(2020) search twitter