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The word 'mairs'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mairsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.9353
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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 41.4 31 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 55.6 4 2
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 mairs in Corpus

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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
ootwards tae the rid planet, Mairs. In mony weys Mairs is oor de
. In mony weys Mairs is oor deid twin an ane that
ld fernyears. Aince we gae by Mairs we lea the rocky inner warlds
Mairs
ither planet in oor Sun Gird, Mairs haes gien us mony legends an
30 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
seegnals comin fae the panet Mairs, but nooadays we ken that mon
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
PIMA OAN THE MAIRS on page 77

2 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
ee verse fae oot the Ayrshire mairs up by Muirkirk. A wheen o yea(2020)
@scotslanguage Mairs? Thon are whit ye fin up ayon(2020)

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