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Use in varieties of Scots

maybes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words18.4 25.2 4.5 0 0 72.4 0
Number of occurrences5949 3 0 0 7 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of maybes in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
ll no be hime fur a while, so maybes Ah'Il jist rin hime wv' ye.' on page 18

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
trends will hae continued an maybes e'en acceleratit. Frae Hertzl on page 9

2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ad turn roon at Lanzhou - or maybes even get a flicht straucht fa
ologetic aboot watchin her - maybes he wis even lattin on tae her
cat? He leukit in the fridge. Maybes. Haurd tae tell. It leukit ta
. Bill listent carefu-like - maybes it wis the body the envelope
ht tae spick aboot Nilyungun. Maybes thir fowk kent aa aboot it. M
44 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
@DavidJEWood Maybes aye, maybes naw.(2020) search twitter

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 85 - The Clash o the Titans, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Doric, prose
in his lug, 'Hudd on, laddie, maybes the battle's nae lost jist ye on page 54
the nicht. But Ah think Ah'll maybes jist get awa wi't.' on page 55
wis nae match for Sandy - or maybes Ah should say nae match for B on page 58

3 matches

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
t'll ne'er dae tae esk: Ah'll maybes say eet written doon somewher on page 9
his moarnin? Ah reckon Ah kin maybes mind feelin a wee bit diffrin on page 18
e hed nithin else tae dae, an maybes efter aw eet micht tell hur s on page 44
"No at firrst, maybes," said th Hatter: "but ee cou on page 70
od, an thocht tae hersel that maybes eet was only th pepper that h on page 87
Also on pages 97
7 matches

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