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The word 'mushy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mushyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3108
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 32 3 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 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 mushy in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
d tatties wi a dollop o green mushy peas - on page 31

1 matches

General Northern

TheChielMeister Oatcakes 'n' Cheese, (youtube.com 2009) Doric, poetry
Jist sit there an' ate yer mushy peas
1 matches

@fittiecrooners tweeted
ee ye dee huddock wee chips n mushy peas, side plate o'pickled on(2018)

(South) East Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
es - god forbid we play on a mushy pitch lol (2020) twitter link

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
manners but the rice wis dead mushy an the banana fritters wurnae on page 148

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
enner o steak pie, tatties an mushy peas wi vinegar. She had made on page 23

3 matches

General Central

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
eddar cheesey knobbly kneesey mushy peasey North Berwick breezy ( on page

1 matches

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
s79 @star_welsh Dinnae go all mushy oan me ya bampot! (2022) twitter link

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