A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'mackerel'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mackerelOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.587
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of mackerel in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Fished mackerel doon at Scapa pier, on page 71

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ct wi young tatties, an fried mackerel, straight oot a da sea. An da on page 62

1 matches

Isbister, Sonny Caves aroond Shetland, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
ere dey fun a graet big box o mackerel but da mackerel must’ve bee
but da mackerel must’ve been magic because
2 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ked in da fish factory packin mackerel. And it maks me think o da ge(2020)

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
bara "Foo nae fish the nicht? Mackerel maybe?" "Aye aa right" on page 15

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
ie or a whitin, a herrin or a mackerel an it wisna a crooner or onie
1 matches

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
awrightDaniel A brave wheen o mackerel an lythe! https://t.co/drQs0B(2020)