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The word 'mick'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mickOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41812
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 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 mick in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
er kent whin ye wir takin the mick.
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
n wi' Rick an wi' Nick an wi' Mick on page 86
e's pullin ma leg an takin i' Mick, aye on page 93

3 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
o Sport. Watching the likes o Mick McManus, Jackie Pallo, Johnny
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
eres a blast from the past - mick mills! (2021) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Mick McGahey on page 78
ooray Henrys' heckle 'Gorbals Mick'. on page 152

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
een uised tae fowk takkin the mick aboot the 'fit-likery' (the E on page 75
contemporary songs takkin the mick oot o Napoleon Bonaparte, the on page 91

2 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
n awey. "Ye're jist takin the mick, noo!" on page 31

1 matches

General Central

Lang, Charles nobody remembers the birdman - Good Friday, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
ll Sharon ever find oot? Will Mick sell the Queen Vic? on page 88

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
'Ah Mick, ye're here,' an e wis smilin on page 45
ed tae tell thim aboot Paddy, Mick an Dunn an the Ghost; they wi on page 46

2 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt twa: Janus leuks aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
this year are Scots Chorus wi Mick West, Scots Sang wi Christine
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
@MickD1957 Afternoon Mick... Blue skies and sun here no (2022) twitter link
@MickD1957 Afternoon tae ye Mick... Aw' guid I hope?... (2023) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@Woodwinecoolers tweeted
uid squeezing that's fir sure Mick (2022) twitter link