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The word 'mantra'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mantraOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 mantra in Corpus

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Orkney

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2017) Orkney
Mind on, wur mantra is no tae be faered – spell

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
yne lood; syne looder – the mantra she'd catched an keepit, tae
1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
treekit haun threips's cadgin mantra saftly tae the err tae You on page 3

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
somethin is absolute, an the mantra 'SNP bad?' is still their slo on page 9
orate fer their opeenion. The mantra o sic 'democracie' is simple: on page 30

2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
r. Noo there’s a teachin’ mantra, “Tell me an’ A forget! S
1 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
ead afore ye tweet maun be my mantra(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
se tae it, and reply with the mantra "je suis Britannique par acci (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
@ScotPlaywright Heeding the mantra - never get rid of anything!(2020)