A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'mortals'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mortalsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.4114
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
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 39.3 3 1
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 2
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 mortals in Corpus

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West Central

Kay, Billy Time for Reflection, (archive2021.parliament.scot 2022) Central, government
Nae harder job to mortals has been gi’en.”
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
rule supreme ower us earthly mortals .. . mortals wham nane daur c on page 30
ngs o this earth are but mere mortals.' on page 46

3 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
finest materials that gods or mortals baith had iver seen. Afore si
y’re ayewis ettlin tae help mortals – which o coorse means yer
ellt his new apprentices that mortals cud flee like the birds, awbo
lkin haivers. But I’ve seen mortals flee since then, an seen some
ras that he’d shoot doon at mortals whaniver he felt like it. His
5 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
worth bein/nae harder job tae mortals has been gien” MacDiarmid. h(2020)
worth bein/Nae harder job tae mortals has been gien” Hugh MacDiarm(2020)

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