Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

maest	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	4.7	0	1.5	0	81.4	0	0
Number of occurrences	15	0	1	0	14	0	0
Number of authors	7		1		6

Occurrences of maest 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.

Doric

Johnston, Shaun The Forkie Gollach, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
chips and telt him he hid the maest boufin place in the toon and
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
can," said da Duchess, "an da maest o dem does." on page 60
"da Mairch Hare'll be far da maest interestin, an maybe seein as on page 66
," da Hat-makker guid on, "an maest things plinkit efter dat only on page 113
"Dat's da maest important piece o evidence we on page 121

4 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
gying in wir rodd, so we hedd maest o a mile ta waak tae da hoose on page 14

1 matches

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
sense o thrill, adventure, an maest of aa, da adoration he receiv
1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
Maest o dis strynds is recordit in
pronunciation. Yit I doot at maest fock wid still say at dis wis
English. Bit agen, I doot at maest fock wid say at dis wis diale
you canna traep fornenst dat. Maest fock at wants Shaetlan ta liv
derie as mesel. Bit da view o maest o da academic an leeterary es
6 matches

Williamson, Christie Da Problem o dese Paerts, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Shetland, prose
ltar, an still noo on Zoom - maest recently wi da camera aff whi
1 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
Da ?? emoji wis wan a my maest used eens but noo its been (2020) twitter link