A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'mums'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mumsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.797
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 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 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 mums in Corpus

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Aberdeen

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric, poetry
Mums teen turns tae hing oot the c
1 matches

Glasgow

Kennedy, Julie Ma Mum and William Wordsworth, (Howkin Words Press 2024 ISBN: 978-1399988971) Central, prose
'Ie's whit the icher mums wear. Yi really suic ic' on page 11

1 matches

General Central

Morning, Carey Neeps and Tatties, (self-published 2020) Central, weans
Neep mums scaulded their bonnie wee nee on page 15

1 matches

@rattlecans tweeted
Those mums..... us wee plebby weans wid (2022) twitter link

@changed_days tweeted
and tried tae say it was his mums new washin powder! For 7 year (2021) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
fuck do a get mum and dad. O mums hers a candle. O dad hers and(2018)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
ms ideal for weans, teachers, mums, dads, papas, grans and aabod(2020)
onfusion. Dinnae forget sheep mums who might be struggling in th(2020)