A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

maa Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 3.1 3 0 52.3 0 0
Number of occurrences176 2 0 9 0 0
Number of authors9 3 2 4

Occurrences of maa in Corpus

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Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
an idiot fae day wan, said ma maa. Aye, said ma gran, But he'd on page 169

1 matches

Lehane, Matt Mair Licht, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
awaa an askit yer Maa
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ir oot o thaim. That wis whit Maa sayed. She wis blithe tae hae
ot ever talkin it ower, he an Maa had baith felt the same blate
an she wis a guid lass. Whan Maa dee’d, an he gied up the gr
he’d made it clear that sin Maa dee’d, Bapu relied on her,
4 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
ol, Ronalt," Ronalt jist geid maa glower eis usual, cus hee fyn on page 26

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
sh maanie best - he aye left maa sweetie oan the post o the ga on page 88

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
ta maa hit, bind hit, stook hit on page 25
aap flees low, minds toons aa maa'd on page 36

2 matches

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
An whit a help he wis! He maa’d, an he kwarved, an he col
1 matches

Laurenson, Hannah Lisa Da Maa's Eggs, (Hands Up For Trad 2019) Shetland, prose
a story aboot you fitching da Maa’s eggs?” whinned Rasmie a
and clim doon it tae fitch da maa’s eggs. My aldest bridder w
is we took da eggs awa and da maa wid come tawards you, head fi
usta whaar in exchange for da maa’s eggs we wid git some brea
4 matches

Walterson, Barbara Da Trow o’ Fogla Skerry, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
ae me. He pit a peerie rippek maa made oot o’ wid in da palm
sy lookin at da widden rippek maa da Trow haed geen me.
2 matches

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