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Use in varieties of Scots

makkan Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 0 0 119.2 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences130 0 12 1 0 0
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of makkan 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I rued the day I ever thowt o makkan fur the Sooth. on page 20
s catchan the minister's wife makkan watter, ahint the whins - on page 63
llads, he turned their heids, makkan sure that they satisfied aal on page 77

3 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
mixter-maxter staetion fock, makkan a piece taegither, sharan the on page 37
a yet Hid isno that sheu isno makkan time. Even wi Darling, sheu's on page 92
ther still, an ivry still aye makkan the promiese that wi a tirl t on page 163

3 matches

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
makkan shadowee streaks on page 18

1 matches

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
eed tractors afore he sterted makkan sports kers. When he sterted
1 matches

Lamb, Gregor Lamb’s Tales, (The Orkney Dictionary 2005) Orkney, prose
ry weel. That day we hid been makkan a terrible nuisance o wirsael
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine WHIT TAE WRITE NOU?, (https://harryjosephine.com/ 2015) Orkney, blog
’m still shappan hid, still makkan hid. Bit hid sterts fae this
1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
aetions i Scots, the gee gars makkan a whole nyow register tae wri
ae repaet a aerlier process o makkan naetion-staets, wi aa hids le
2 matches

Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
An we keep makkan more! Here's this, wur on page 24

1 matches

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