A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

messan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 1 1.5 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences52 1 1 0 1 0
Number of authors5 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of messan in Corpus

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Central

Kirk Jn, Albert The Dug, (albertkirkjr.com 2022) Central - Aryshire, blog
got telt that it wis a manky messan:
1 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
rn ye, ye cruel, hertless wee messan!’ he cried, tae a yowl o pa
1 matches

Doric

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
s, div ken aboot is when some messan sterts ficherin wi this burn. on page 84

1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
o wir shippeen ithoot messan wi fuckan on page 13

1 matches

Southern

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
The Doctor's Messan set a Scottish paitren on page 139

1 matches

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