A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'mcbain'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mcbainOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6153
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 33 13 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of mcbain in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 82 - The Cream Cookie, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central - Midlothian, prose
an a young jyner cried Hecky McBain. Ian realised that they maun on page 58
'Juist as weel I'm no Hecky McBain,' Cherlie said, 'He micht hae on page 59
lugger, 'Whaur's that bastart McBain?' on page 60
cht for the trip?' he speirt. McBain shuik him bi the han, on page 61

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West Central

Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
mp wis the editor, an Barclay McBain a young reporter keen tae pri
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General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
adult buik. Ah wis readin Ed McBain afore that. https://t.co/IAw5(2020)