A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'mans'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mansOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.3216
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 43.8 17 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of mans in Corpus

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Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
xt thing wae saw wis a scabby mans heed on page 90

1 matches

@peediepuss tweeted
d/Skad as in scalped. Scalped Mans Heid seems to be the gory ety (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
e fae da Ness, caa dem scabby mans heid. Likkly misheard or pref(2020)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
auld bodies packing in, young mans game. Aye we both had a fab t(2020)

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
ctually voted macaskill in - mans a muppet - a rest ma case lo (2021) twitter link
wee willie rennies the man - mans ma heero lol (2020) twitter link
message m8 lol - so the big mans a fone warrior - thats worse (2021) twitter link
au10 never doubted it m8 - a mans a man for awe that - fir awe (2021) twitter link
@FootyRustling @CoreyHook1 mans a dick - says it awe ffs lol (2021) twitter link
and 11 other occurrences.

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
An yir deep in Hellie Mans rigs on page 70

1 matches

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