A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'mustae'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mustaeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.175
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 mustae in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
's maw was comin towards him. Mustae been at the shop. Hud her pap on page 1

1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
he didnae see a sowl. The bag mustae bin his ain. Mebbe it wid gie
It mustae bin the succar, kis efter six
2 matches

Glasgow

@johnstone_shane tweeted
urus Aye that's the fella! We mustae drapped thi "t"! (2020) twitter link

General Central

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
jlansdell Evening gorgeous ?? mustae confused yer bonnie wee heid (2022) twitter link
b @jojodinks79 @star_welsh Ye mustae danced tae some pure belters (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Stevenson, Gerda Cat Wumman: Tales O Nine Lives - The Witch, (Luath 2025 ISBN: 978-1804252420) Central - Peebles, prose
in. 'I fund it doon the lane. Mustae fell oot yer pocket.' on page 43

1 matches

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