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Use in varieties of Scots

maxim Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.8 2 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences64 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors4 2 2

Occurrences of maxim in Corpus

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Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
the 'quiet, blate man' wha's maxim in life haed been, "Keep it s
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
llt less or mair intae the ae maxim: ‘Fower legs guid, twa legs
ase yokit tae learnin the new maxim perqueir. FOWER LEGS GUID, TW
sheep cam tae fair like this maxim, and aften as they laid in th
3 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat Tarrarra boomby ae, This is my dying day, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
he trrrrap trrrap o a British maxim, then followed by the faster
1 matches

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did thon sweary angry mannie Maxim find his people last night, h(2015) search twitter

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