A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'mais'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
maisOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.275
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 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 3
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 mais in Corpus

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West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ttie late stertin the schuil. Mais bairns stert primary when the on page 60

1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
“Mais peut-etre, Les Clefs Cinq?”
1 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 58 - Gairm review, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
àidhlig, ed. Ruaraidh MacThòmais, Glasgow, 2000, Aireamh 191, on page 126

3 matches

Facebook link ( 2017) Central
end they wur able to recount mais to whit had happened so on th

@billykayscot tweeted
@ionafyfe Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?(2020)

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