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The word 'male'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
maleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus196127
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 19.6 6 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 4
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 81.6 13 2
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 34.7 26 9
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
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 male in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
A very handsome male calloo (long-tailed duck). De(2015)

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
spects of country life, seeks male, thirty-five to forty (prefer on page 52

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
the lang-ee. He lookit like a male model: his briks war spray-pi on page 8
ang time tull she can trust a male wi twa legs insteid o fower." on page 75
hink Maximus will be the only male in my life for a long time," on page 76

3 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
nae natral fir a reed-bleedit male like on page 35

1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
and by the size o’t must be male. Ower the next fyowe days Mab
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia The birds an the bees, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
e visitor at the míntie is a male widpecker, fa is luvingly caa
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
y a different world fae maist male fitba fans these days. (2020) twitter link

@Franwella tweeted
mmm a personal trainer .....a male personal trainer yum!(2011)

(South) East Central

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 90 - Serendipity, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, prose
en o blaw an blooster whan in male company, Ah wis awfu blate am on page 27

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
rk, wi her man singin aboot a male god's mercy an preyin tae 'Oo on page 1

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
Eftir the male, Grant begoud ti gie the fank
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
s if you were posh, grown-up, male, English and dead
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
g granzies better nor oor wee male-kisess on page 106

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
ine aura til't: it celebrates male frienship an skared leiterari on page 141

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
female’, til a stranglie ‘male’, makar. Syne, he compares
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
a guid raed-blooded male, hung like a bull on page 4

1 matches

Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
ie in character. Aa the ither male pigs on the ferm wis porkers.
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ill didna usually gang in for male singer-sangwriters, bit he’
We dinna regaird every leevin male as an enemy ...”
ck-heided, muscle-bound alpha male. Whan she cam in, he wis stau
juist, in effeck, the surplus male population.
characteristics o the modren male wis waantin: a strang chin, i
12 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
us. A guidance teacher n the male PE teachers, who often took i on page 46

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Buddha Da - Chapter 1 Anne Marie, (Canongate 2009 ISBN: 978-1847673459) Central - Glasgow, prose
'The lama is always male.'
'Only a male child can be the successor to
2 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ear, an this muived ane o her male fieres ti ruise her in prent on page 15

1 matches

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
eisur o smeddum. Aw the ither male pigs on the fairm were porker on page 6

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
No jist fur male attention. on page 36

1 matches

Travers, Martin A Nappie Lassie Blethers tae a Fritter, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, script
nes shoud aither be spak bi a male actor live or be a recordin. on page 1

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
o thon rogues' gaillery o the male great and guid o Scots scriev on page 4

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Paternal genome drap-oot forders altruism in stieve populations, (Wiley Online Library 2022) Central, prose
al fur altruism in species wi male paternal genome drap-oot (PGD
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
e threap the importance o the male line o descent. Forby, it whi
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
atween these scrievins o the male great and guid o Scotland, an
desire tae tak on the veil o male sex sae that the twa wimmen m
that MQ 49 was composed by a male poet and ventriloquises the f
e, Montgomerie […]” – a male poet.
ilarities wi the poetry o twa male poets, Montgomerie and Scott.
8 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
ks the traditions o idealisit male freenship and idealisit heter
pe in Renaissance rhetoric on male freenship, oor poet manipulat
cannie mainner, the ideals o male-centric freenship and heteros
t atween the maist celebratit male freens o lear (whaurby ‘fre
inby and ootwi the spheres o male freenship and heterosexual ma
7 matches

@ClashCityClarky tweeted
the online abuse suffered by male snooker players... Which kind(2018)

@IshbelMcF tweeted
MDempster We'll aye hink that male stories is whit stories is. A(2017)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
st pairt ae afflictioun o the Male o the species. Yet tae Ken a (2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
rus @IainKingSport Definitely male. Nae question.(2020)

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
cies is mair cunnin' than the male. on page 18

1 matches

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