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The word 'maakin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
maakinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus13.1427
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 435.7 31 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of maakin in Corpus

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Orkney

Peace, Courtney The 'Guid' Life, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
rod tae school is whaur ah'm maakin me wey,
1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Announcin Truncherfaece twins, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
a hap dat she’d spent monts maakin.
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Sky high fuel prices maks trows lie low, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
is back in demand an fokk ir maakin for da paet hill.
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
an peerie ceps wir kept trang maakin aa kinds o fine things. A roo
1 matches

Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
she telt me, layin doon her maakin. “Does du ken whaar dis cam
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
Broch laad's, an theiy werna maakin a moov either til thi tyde tu on page 56

1 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Kieran an Aidan, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
dan up till e buchts - I wis maakin for a fracht o waater, wunner
Did aa then ill natur at his maakin gig intil him? Is aat e wye h
s sae ill grunted? Aidan’s maakin wis diffrent. Addy wis mair l
3 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
e hing aboot till she’s ben maakin a cup o tea or whitivver, we
1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
like gettin till it first an maakin toast o't. https://t.co/PmfoX(2020)

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
mmitment tae oor identity bae maakin a recommendations report at w on page 4
scope es the penel alloos at maakin a leet o' new fundin' schemes on page 5
n contribute tae Ulster-Scots maakin fer a vibrant croass generati on page 6
* The maakin o' a flegschip Ulster-Scots c on page 8
* Maakin sim fowk ap tae bae Ulster-Sc on page 10
Also on pages 13, 14, 15, 23, 25, 30, 39, 40, 41, 43, 47, 50, 56, 58, 672, 68, 72
30 matches

Mc Donnell, John , (Facebook 2021) Ulster, prose
erdae . A knawed shae wud bae maakin soda farls oan tha griddle an
1 matches

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