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The word 'math'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mathOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.277
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 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 math in Corpus

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Mid Northern B

Crawford, Jack The Pluffer, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
nae exaggerating fan a say ma math teacher fair hates me. she th
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ght boay like you kin dae the math. Dinnae worry though, man. Yi on page 134

1 matches

Glasgow

@johnstone_shane tweeted
@bbcalba Math fh?in! (2018) twitter link

General Central

Jarvie, Gordon Lallans 74 - Ballad o an Irish student, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
wha wis studying math at Yale.
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
y tae be fae the Gaelic ‘is math sin’ (is good that’). Sco
1 matches

@Cobradile94 tweeted
'S math sinn! https://t.co/iER13IHnm4(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
@HurchinHome 'S math sin ??(2020)