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The word 'mell'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mellOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.92923
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 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 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 19.9 15 11
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 mell in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
yir language wi neologisms an mell dialects ithoot faer o bean i
1 matches

Shetland

Priest, Ena Bonxie Geo, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
fish dat’s aboot eenoo, an mell please Mansie,” answered Be
hed a lichtsome yarn, got da mell an saat, an headed back tae h
2 matches

Walterson, Vaila Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Da nicht afore da Trowie Show, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
nowe dat nicht! Dae wir floor mell flyin, cloos o’ wirsit, dea
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
it he wis jist plain deef, or mell-heided. Gweed sakes, the time on page 84

2 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
clatter an clype a fowkloric mell o howp an hallucination in ti on page 3

1 matches

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
n hit me like a sulken heidit mell as we jined the clamjamfrae i on page 27

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
t. Tammas, at hed gaed pik an mell at the
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
tae be a fuid stylist an tae mell wi its social whurl. Emily Br
1 matches

West Central

Hardie, George Lallans 59 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Slate and blaes and reid ash mell on page 129

1 matches

General Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
a easy-osie cast thit didnae mell wi his muckle bumfly lanth. B on page 21

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
they did wis tae binner pell-mell roond the mairches o the fair on page 6

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
R FEDDERS THAT ARE FAWIN OOT. MELL YIN SPOONFU AINLY WI ILKA TRO on page 28
GETTIN RID O TAIDS AND FLEES. MELL YIN SPOONFU IN YIN GALLON O W on page 29

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
wi Lawland fowk gart mell, on page 49
Mell-heidit Kenny slounges douce-l on page 65

2 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
There's still a mell o auld saws an gleg invention on page 6

1 matches

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - In Liverpool Cathedral, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
The mason's mell gae't clinkin on on page 103

1 matches

Philip, George Lallans 56 - Scotsoun Thereanent, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ies on the screen scrowed tae mell wi the soun, fair helps a bod on page 46

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
the atmosphere gies wey til a mell o ammonia, methane an wattery
1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
finndin replacements at wad mell wi the lave. Thare wis nae wa
out new warkers, thaim at wad mell wi the lave. He wis fell
2 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
ichmaist trochs, an the ponky mell that wis compostit hey an tre
e feed a mitherless cauf wi a mell o watter an a pouder cried
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
ination o soonds that ye syne mell thegither intae ane unit; gin
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
n it’s aw thar fur yowe tae mell, i speertit an thocht, wi
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
whit skites oot yer tap pell-mell. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays on page 77

1 matches

Adamson, Donald Northwords Now 43 - Donald Adamson, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Central, poetry
in a mell-moorin, shakin its fur free on page 28

1 matches

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