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The word 'mccoy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mccoyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus21.8714
ORK - Orkney
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 308 67 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of mccoy in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
said Dottie. "Ess is the real McCoy. Bill bocht it fir ma it an u on page 21

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
. Tom Lochhead. Here. William McCoy. He's aff, says Bryan Allan. on page 47
This guy in ma class - Wully McCoy - he went an used up three w on page 56
w boyfriend. His name's Wully McCoy an he's a right nutcase an he on page 60
had young Billy that's Wully McCoy'sda an they cawd him Billy Bo on page 61
ear other folk outside, Wully McCoy an the two Lauras an they wur on page 62
Also on pages 63, , 72, 76, 78, 79, 83, 88, 108, 111, 112, 113, 114, 119, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 140, 141, 143, 144, 169
67 matches

Glasgow

McCrory, Pat Lallans 56 - The Tale ae a Worm, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central - Cowcaddens, poetry
A swot ae a boy wis wee Andy McCoy, on page 114

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
the fastest rinner wis Ronnie McCoy. on page 6

2 matches

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