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The word 'mats'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
matsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
ORK - Orkney
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 mats in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
shö wad drap ontae da crash mats, bouncin back up wi a peerie
1 matches

Aberdeen

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
rtains, ithers laying Lino or mats
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
e the stitches in the crochet mats ye yaised to mak at the schui
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
milk boy left on folk's door mats. You're sad, ah tolt him. Ma on page 140

1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
here's nae park really. Crash mats cover the ground round the sw on page 24

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
ee o the laddies. Oor sleepin mats were made oot o reeds, that w on page 9
n, and rose fae their sleepin mats. "A great lion has sneezed," on page 18

2 matches

Holton, Brian Lallans 67 - The Nine Sangs: Brian Holton, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
mappiemou mait, ay, an mats o mascorn on page 17

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
irds, the tea tooels an place-mats, redd oot the biscuit tins, f on page 77

1 matches

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