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The word 'mankie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mankieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.865
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of mankie in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
in site. But Yakcam haed on a mankie auld Teddy Boy suit, wi drain on page 85

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 59 - The Queen’s Shull’n, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Fife, prose
€™ afore it. Ay, thon wis wan mankie wird – Churchill. Wullie’
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ilk human generation is mair mankie nor thaim that’s gaen afore
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
eilins, and scartit intae the mankie widden flairs. There wis een on page 125
blinked and looked aroond the mankie room. He wis still in his jam on page 128

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
e," said Esther, examinin the mankie handkerchief. "I've ruined ye on page 5

1 matches

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