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The word 'machar'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
macharOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.1136
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 29.4 9 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of machar in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
tae a lair in the neuk o the Machar Kirk. Minnie's fowk had bin o
ig tae takk them ower tae the Machar Kirk far her man wis beeriet,
e gig aa the wye ower tae the Machar Kirk, an near drookit the fow
time she'd worshipped in the Machar Kirk. She'd bin beddit wi the
ked ooto the hauf licht o the Machar Kirk tae a sinsheeny day, and
6 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
uncient kists that lie in the Machar kirkyaird this Nor East Yule.
1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
's Prayer in Doric seen at St Machar's Cathedral Aberdeen. https:/(2016)
#Doric Psalm 23 fae St Machar's Cathedral #Aberdeen https:/(2017)

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 68 - Gordon’s Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Doric, prose
hurry tae get ower tae the St Machar's Bar. An it wis a' theirs, t on page 35

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
war operatin in ilka airt. St Machar’s kirkyaird juist by Aiberd
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
In Machar's hames an kirks, on page 7

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
y, the 18th Century Edinburgh machar. Mair poets, maistly fae the
1 matches

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