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The word 'mute'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
muteOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41110
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 mute in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
comer even when hid's standan mute. on page 34

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
ensnared jizzen, the cell's mute face. on page 29

1 matches

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
reen... couldna git mysel aff mute ?? (2020) twitter link

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
tionalist boys staun cheekily mute, on page 41

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
ayin against me. The clueless mute sat opposite him. Whos yince on page 35

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
rn oan the telly then hit the mute button before lookin oot oant on page 42

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Or mute him that the angels' sang on page 61
If fowk seem mute, lat me be sweir on page 78

2 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
bbfan Don't block them sandra mute them it takes people a day to(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ate Tbh i dinnae really block/mute anybdy - I'm just smallfry s (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
@HurchinHome Ah'll mute masel! See, Ah'm sib tae the (2020)