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The word 'maker'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
makerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41813
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 32 3 2
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of maker in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ell dowie. The bard hissel, a maker-chiel caad John Milton, maun
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
ltums Croint wiz sent tae his maker. His last word wiz “FOOKERS
1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
It's nae simmer canna be hey maker.
Fermer noo turns intae a hey maker.
Fermer in a hurry turns hey maker.
Fermer cood gey near be hey maker,
4 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Deid Come Nevermas, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
in the introductory poem The Maker to Posterity til his beuk o S
Robert Louis Stevenson: The Maker to Posterity.
2 matches

Edinburgh

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 68 - Gairdens, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
Thomas Francini, the maker o't, on page 98

1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
rare hing fae some enigmatic maker in Ireland. A baldy, extremel on page 3

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
it quicker! Pray tae meet yer Maker, Browning!' But afore the fou on page 45
ort in sendin thaim tae their Maker.' As they stertit tae mairch on page 46

2 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
We kennt that a warld elaiss maker had wroeht byordhar poesie an on page 18

1 matches

General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
Pol @PeterMurrell I'm a peace maker trying to maintain it, dinnae(2020)

@g_hibby tweeted
. Heid plastic block thingy's maker upper.. ??.. Anyhoos, I'm awa (2022) twitter link

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
#FringeScots Naw, it's no "maker" spelt wrang. A MAKAR" maks p(2016)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
te her the second best tablet maker in the soon tae be republic!(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Watt, George T. Lallans 82 - Caul Stane, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
thay gang tae thair Maker wi heids as thochtless on page 24

1 matches

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