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The word 'saxteen'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
saxteenOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.82514
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 92.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 39.3 3 1
LAL - General Central 8 6 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 153.7 3 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of saxteen in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Genesis, chapter three, verse saxteen, an read till the young quini
Tae ony under the age o saxteen
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
should hae luikit efter her. Saxteen or siventeen year auld he wis
1 matches

General Northern

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 58 - The Bothy Loon, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
the orra beast and fan I wis saxteen I wid get a pair and tak my t on page 124

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
the early 1800s, they cut aff saxteen fowk. They’d dae in hameles
1 matches

Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
rain wis stapped at Ballater, saxteen mile doun the road. Braemar w
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 106, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
s is ettlin tae pit oot aboot saxteen buiks for bairns o aw ages ow
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
Pr. Ton Hoenselaars, it haes saxteen braw skreids, an luiks at vai on page 116

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
eiginallie bi his readers, an saxteen variants o the buik's twantie on page 141

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“Ah wis saxteen. They brocht me up, thoo kens
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
o July in the year o oor Lord saxteen hunner an aichty, whustlin aw on page 48
months syne, in the August o saxteen aichty-fower, James Irvine o on page 58
dam wis the furst tae gang at saxteen, fee'd tae Netherwood juist t on page 75

3 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Precious and the Puggies, (Itchy Coo 2011 ISBN: 978-1845023324) Central, weans
lie later on, when they turnt saxteen or somethin? It was a gey int on page 32

1 matches

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
cord o the Scottis leid afore saxteen hunder, wi a sklent at whit w on page 59

2 matches

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
'Weel, let's cry it saxteen,' said Rabbit. 'Whit I cam ta on page 35
stert and settled on it bein saxteen. Sae he heezed himsel up; and on page 48

2 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
Fifteen, saxteen, on page 35

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Jade Lute, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
At saxteen ye gaed awa.
1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Drennan, William Yin Tae A Hunner, (Ullans Press 2004) Ulster, poetry
Saxteen, seiventeen an echteen
1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
As tha coorse oul twunty an saxteen! on page 40
As tha coorse oul twunty an saxteen! on page 41

3 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
the coorse oul year twunty an saxteen in daicent #UlsterScots rhyme (2016) twitter link