A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'mps'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mpsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.63217
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 74.3 7 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 27.6 21 12
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 mps in Corpus

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(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
atch the fm n awe her hapless mps - make a complete pigs ea (2020) twitter link

West Central

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
like it or no, is held up bi MPs wha ran purely on the basis o
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
l this: did haein 56 oot o 59 MPs doon on the banks o the Thame on page 9
nit. 56 oot o the 59 Scottish MPs electit in 2015 bi the Westmi on page 28
t bi aw the Labour an Lib-Dem Mps o Scotland at the time, wi th on page 44
k up the great majority o the MPs on the banks o the Thames. Aw on page 78
remairkably high percentage o Mps, present an past. He clearly on page 80
Also on pages 102
7 matches

Glasgow

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
etical threips as thairsel an MPs is aye fechtin oniegait.
1 matches

General Central

Thoumire, Elizabeth Deid huddies an the Moray Eel, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e o the Scottish Conservative MPs noo seem owre keen tae vote a
1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
land in 1707 that meant Scots MPs haed tae sit in a pairlament
s whiles miscawed wi Soothron MPs, an the terms ‘Ingland’ a
2 matches

Widmann, Thomas The State o Denmark, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
fowks, sae in 1995 some o its MPs creatit a new pairtie, the De
raicently: in 2007, whan twa MPs thocht the pairtie wis ower c
up, an this decides hoo monie MPs the pairties gets; synethey l
noo, gin we ignore the fower MPs frae the Faroe Islands an Gre
4 matches

McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ommaunds 56 o Scotland’s 59 MPs, as weill as a majority i the
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Syriza, an the road aheid, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
ace maugre o haein hauf their MPs i the jyle, but it seems an o
that there’s twal Communist MPs i the pairliament that wad ma
2 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ssage o hope while the Labour MPs received an Imperial walcome.
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Thon Survation poll..., (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
that sittin Liberal Democrat MPs are haird tae shift, an they
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
er. Foo could Scottish Labour MPs gie their backin tae neoliber
1 matches

Wilson, Rab A centre of undeemous excellence fir Scots leid, (The National 2017) Central, newspaper
nterviewer that a puckle Tory MPs haed confesst that thay jist
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
British Nationalist/Unionist MPs an MSPs - they’re only in i(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
pass a new law decreeing that MPs cannae abstain fae voting. Th(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
fuck. I'd hope the decent SNP MPs (the hauf a dozen) would foll (2022) twitter link
ere one of the handful of SNP MPs that I held in some esteem. W (2022) twitter link

@pmcm1355 tweeted
nce & a majority o Scotland's MPs tae https://t.co/puVqExM2RW (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
There a fair share o MPs that hae taen their oath in S (2020) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
' for a minute. Watching Tory MPs stuttering and stammering and(2020)

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