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The word 'maire'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
maireOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus311032
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 188.2 73 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 186 30 2
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of maire 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.

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
anamo Bay hus probably goat a maire hamely feel tae it than this on page 13
eir dicks up. Ah mean, it hud maire bling than Mr T. As we stood on page 17
eat Goliath. The truth is the maire yae try tae reach fur the sta on page 18
im ae circumstance. Ah became maire bothered aboot what ma mates on page 19
The maire intently ah watch the spider, on page 21
Also on pages 22, 23, 24, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31, 33, 36, 41, 42, 44, 50, 51, 53, 55, 56, 61, 62, 69, 71, 77, 78, 84, 85, 86, 87, 90, 91, 99, 100, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108
64 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
is inflictin oan ma ears yit maire ae that soulless pish they ca
this earth. Fur ah um nuttin maire than his unfortunate passenge
years, yae see. Thus, ah ken maire than anyboady what a borin te
oan oor wey tae meet. He’s maire than voiced his concerns that
n buidin in the middle row ae maire shinin examples ae neglected
7 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
n ma operatin gear. Armed wae maire tools than a carpenter. It re
Maire than even before this guy is
2 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
Ah hink, what ah'll miss maire, than anyhing else, is her la on page 34
a wee bit ae redemption. And maire importantly, the chance tae g on page 35

4 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
e at St Andrews, as we speak. Maire bothered aboot improvin his h
at the keyboard tae note doon maire ae ma answers.
ld wid be a better place with maire Aldo’s aboot. So, what dae
3 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
Maire than likely ah’ll melt quic
ve nearly run oot ae road oan maire occasions than ah care tae re
wo auld timers who are nuttin maire than boarderline fanatics. Es
oot tae violently erupt yince maire. Bruce will nae doot be well
cannae help but love him ever maire because ae that. Fae the Fren
10 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
and never huv ah needed that maire than theday. Fur the nixt fiv
inner that’s fit fur nuttin maire than a rabbit’s hutch. It a
Ah take a couple maire anti-diarrhoea capsules fae y
misty eyes and he’s lookin maire concerned than ever before.
le phone caw aw day. Which is maire than surprisin considerin ahâ
5 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
life’s aches and pains. But maire tae the point, ma ain imminen
sy. At this moment he appears maire awake, and it wid seem his cu
e the bag and plonks a couple maire intae his drink. Until he dec
. Efter droappin the keys oan maire than yin occasion ah somehow
ssion that says the feelin is maire than mutual. And we baith div
6 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 5, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
w ae a sudden ah’ve lept up maire confident than ever. ‘’ A
arkin clean again and ah feel maire motivated than ever before. T
2 matches

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