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The word 'mistaks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mistaksOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.11311
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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) 18.2 1 1

Occurrences of mistaks in Corpus

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Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
a mistak, caase you canna mak mistaks in a grammarless dialect. If
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@Julie_Dennison tweeted
nline is littered wi spelling mistaks, does nobody ever tink ta pro (2020) twitter link

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ear Doon gid the brush - nae mistaks on page 15

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
an an says it's aricht te mak mistaks. An Ah ken, noo, at it wisna on page 67

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Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
Forgie oor mistaks on page 13
Forgie oor mistaks on page 99

2 matches

(South) East Central

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
wi the Scots in that: Lorimer mistaks hissel back an forrit, but no
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Fleemin, Sandy Shudder at the Niffer, (sandyfleming.org 2003) Central - East Lothian, prose
Some mistaks made in the uise o the Englis
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Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie William Playfair: faither o data visualisation, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e that the graphs did conteen mistaks. Playfair’s less-than-braw
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Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Gif I was, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
as ... fowk wad learn fae the mistaks o ithers an let consciousness
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General Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
chty stushie, an I made fower mistaks in my rithmatick. The saicont on page 46

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@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
il an a. It micht hae grammar mistaks. https://t.co/HrUkxJLTxy(2020)

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
* pit richt onie mistaks bae fillin oot tha box lake s
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