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The word 'mints'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mintsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus134314
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 2
WCE - West Central 17.8 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 48.4 4 1
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 mints in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
ud buckle box wi aifter eicht mints fae the free entry Christmas (2017)

General Northern

@fittiecrooners tweeted
I've tried yon strong mints tae try to hide my beer breat(2016)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
e had a great liking for Polo mints and Senior Service fags.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 75, (self-published 2000) Central, newspaper
Mints:- Tae gar an awaurness o the
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Ah suppose yi cannae eat Pola Mints either, she said openin up a on page 87
. Then she took two mair Pola Mints. You have nae willpower whits on page 137

4 matches

Glasgow

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
old fogeys dishing oot breath mints. Jist no me. They didnae find on page 39

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
mpartments wi Trebor's Strong Mints, hair pins an bobblies, elast on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
that the cunyies frae various mints i the twa kintras was rinnin
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
chts o a bairn’ – what it mints tae me is that the speech (le
1 matches

MacMinto, Gregor Hippies, Authenticity and Globalisation, (Wordpress 2022) Central, prose
arrelled their government’s mints at haudin the stick ower Amer
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
.). Yin o ma Scots dictionars mints at Royal can bei yaised, tae
whaur hei mints thit this biggin wis than, th
1840’s. George Scott mints thit thar wur i the Hauch, it
whar it mints thit the naem Maislee is o An
4 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
@culturekhan That's no mints, jist mince(2020)