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The word 'mo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
moOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.53511
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 107.6 21 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 4
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 mo in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
it), /gaɪzər/ (guizer), /dəmoɐrn/ (damoarn) on page 23
d voiced alveolar stop /dəmoɐrn/ (damoarn) on page 26

2 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
"But A'm mo a serpent, A tell ee !" sade on page 50

1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
Big Tent, wi the wee fairy il mo still sittin on his back. He on page 100

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ist, an Davy Cooper, an aboot Mo Johnson the first Catholic ta on page 66

1 matches

Edinburgh

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
. Ah stare back at him for ay mo’, an ah find masel licking
eiling. He disnae reply fir a mo’, so ah swallow and repeat
2 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
Parker, - Paco, Disco an ahm Mo.' He puts his hawn oot fur me on page 10
First up's wee fat Mo, He's a cocky cunt, ah cin te on page 12
Wee Paco comes err next. Mo's re-emerged fae the caravan, on page 13
explode. He's no as chubby as Mo but he's certainly closer in on page 14
'Aye, yer some wummin,' Mo chimes in. 'Here.' He racks u on page 15
Also on pages 19, 23, 24, 26, 31, 31
21 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
wee lass wis juist eletven ...mo much aulder than she had been on page 76

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
"I'm mo yer coontess," Violet said ca on page 150

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
mo sheanchara in Eirinn on page 66

1 matches

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Andra’s Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
"Fit, Andra - 'mo thon stour yoursel? on page 50

3 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
lairnin the Gaelic seyin tha mo cheann na bhrochan (“my hea
1 matches

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