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The word 'mester'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mesterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.3175
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 69.7 12 2
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 490.5 3 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 mester in Corpus

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Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
gengs - Bill, come here! Da mester says du's ta geng doon da lum on page 38
guid ta da schöl ida sea. Da mester wis an aald Turtle - we öse on page 95
raphy: dan Draalin-da Draalin mester wis an aald conger-eel at ös on page 98

4 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
'Mester', said Peter. 'Wir been fishi on page 87
s better at spaekin as doin. 'Mester', he said, 'du's a faersom bo on page 105
m in by in an aafil styooch. 'Mester, dus du no care dat my sister on page 117
ey cam. An da man said ta his mester, 'Da fock ir aa here bit der' on page 120
Judas Betrays his Mester on page 145
Also on pages 151, 155
8 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
O' the mester o' an age owl trade; on page 9
Au' show them thir mester is Man!" on page 17
Tae them hae wiz the mester - at them he'd nivir sneer, on page 43

3 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
: thin Drawlin - the Drawlin-mester wus an oul conger-eel, that u on page 96

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Mester Daivit half up't sticks, on page 27

1 matches

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