A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'man’s'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
man’sOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.553
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 37.4 3 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 man’s in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
‘nation’ and nae think, the man’s a either a fuckin idiot, or, (2020) twitter link

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
pals. “Netty Rae’s gettin a man’s bosilla”. https://t.co/mD93l(2020)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ut move sooth due tae ma auld man’s employment. since that day, m(2020)
SusannahMacNeil True, ma auld man’s name is that! Even a feel ma (2020)
was taken oot due tae ma auld man’s employment, hence why, mair t (2020) twitter link