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The word 'maself'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
maselfOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.92211
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
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 54.3 10 3
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of maself in Corpus

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General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
And I let maself see those twa lives I hivna l
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
n moment, ah try tae convince maself suttin will turn up. Ah guess on page 20

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
yin. Luckily fur you ah foond maself a Bruce and ah’ve mellowed
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
ro28744016 I just cannae stop maself doing artisanal stuff. It’s (2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
you, said Nicola. Ah do value maself on my originality. Then she t on page 169

1 matches

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
but me I like jist relaxin by maself ivery noo n again. Bit I supp
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
? Naw, too obvious, could cut maself, leave blood everywhere - ca on page 30

1 matches

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
the layers heat up. Ave seen maself oot in winter tuckin ma track on page 16
re wis six ae them, n just me maself'Well, no just yirsel, he says on page 21
aws on the ice. A nearly pish maself laughin n start runnin like f on page 34
ur a lonely traveller such as maself. on page 41
back doon a bit before A drag maself tae ma feet. There's still sh on page 43
Also on pages 44, 46, 47
8 matches

Piondargas, Criostoir , (no publisher recorded 2015) Central, prose
got baith the Gaelic an Scots maself an speakers o baith leids shu
1 matches

Ayrshire

Neill, Willie Lallans 61 - Three Tales frae the Brithers Grimm, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Ayrshire, prose
aryin for anither guidman nor maself. Am I no guid eneuch for ye?" on page 42

1 matches

General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
?? I jist said the same aboot maself the day, I wis checking ma wa(2020)
d i wid judge if yer too much maself ?? dinnae go switching yer na(2020)
... That isnae gonna convince maself ??(2020)
iniangel I wis wondering that maself... how big wis this hoose? ??(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Untitled, (twitter 2021) Ulster - Larne, poetry
writing poetry and affrontin maself postin it on the socials. Any
1 matches

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