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The word 'moustache'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
moustacheOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11713
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.1 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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 moustache in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
ck, bit he haed a cracker o a moustache. Mrs Dursley wis thin an blon
ver back doon and stroked his moustache, thinkan … na, he wis bein
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n ye mair time te wirk on yer moustache. Jist think, ye micht eyn up on page 68

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
n the picture faun a saw your moustache @mcgregor_ewan #Janegotagun -(2016)

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
them that looks a bit like a moustache or somethin. Oor teacher telt
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
eeth stuck oot unner a skinny moustache. He liked tae dress in bricht on page 17
wee futrat o a man wia pookit moustache, wearin a jaickit strippit in on page 86

2 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
Moustache
‘Ur's Chinamen efter ma moustache An' some e' thum's oafurt me
2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
lip intae his mou an bit his moustache. “Foo lang?”
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
most smiles under that famous moustache. The big man seems cool n cal on page 52
the elder heavy-set boy wae a moustache - the Roadrunner n fuckin Yo on page 58

2 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
h?’ he sais, his wee pencil moustache collectin wee globules ay swe
1 matches

General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
hair an a lang white beard an moustache. on page 49

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
wer the tap o yer heid! And a moustache! And a baird!' on page 102

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
e beard growth, no Scotty dug moustache & nae rivening wrinkle(2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
turner Notice how ma pornstar moustache is comin oan hen? ?? (2022) twitter link

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