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The word '-maxter'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
-maxterOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus0.311
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 -maxter in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
an hers, langsyne, pure mixter-maxter staetion fock, makkan a piece on page 37
ia's histry, the thraan mixter-maxter o fock at biggid the staetion on page 123

2 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine An Excerpt From Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Future Fantasy, (The Bottle Imp 2019) Orkney, poetry
fer her mixter-maxter crood.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
Soothwards lay the mixter-maxter scrub o the Fittach breemy wi
And mair, much mair, a mixter-maxter warld
d bi a fine smaar – a mixter-maxter o smirr an haar, thon purple
3 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Trains approachin?, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
journey. Scotrail is a mixter-maxter o the sorry an the sublime. O
1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
na the sort ti mind the mixter-maxter o the place, o the folk, and on page 74

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
mixter-maxter o succudrie an luxure, clam i
lyfe ben yeir ain laun mixter-maxter in wi
2 matches

Douglas, Sheila Lallans 63 - The Smithsonian Folklife Festival 2003, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
for it rowed in a braw mixter-maxter o weel-kent an weel respeckit
1 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 71 - The Concreit Bouer, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
r memory, rinnin into a mixter-maxter o his trig young chafts
1 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
o breid slathered wi a mixter-maxter o peanut butter and strawberr on page 53

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Sic mixter-maxter thochts left me gey thrawn, on page 41

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
ou. Hogg gies us a braw mixter-maxter o licht an derk uimor, whan h on page 139

1 matches

Edinburgh

McPartlin, John Lallans 81 - Fower Australian Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Dollar, poetry
Mixter-maxter. Aa weys. Ayeweys. on page 18

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Taid o that Ilk (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2009) Central, prose
o’m, bot kinnens ar a mixter-maxter. An than thare’s Brok, in c
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Soonds o the kirk an court: early airt muisic in Scotland, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
and’s history — the mixter-maxter o political, religious an soc
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
in it gey tasty (a rale mixter-maxter o cherry-tairt, custart, pine on page 13

1 matches

General Central

Robson, Frances Lallans 82 - The Locomotive, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
hauds crates in a richt mixter-maxter. on page 30

1 matches

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
on dinnae. Some scrieve mixter-maxter in Scots, English an een Gael on page 44

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Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
o leir and leid in the mixter-maxter and aye inclusive language o on page 59
s a lowsening, creative mixter-maxter, unco sib we hou we are - 'a on page 60

2 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
'but unfortunately the mixter-maxter isnae jist richt yet. I've ma on page 103
ickly aw the blue faemy mixter-maxter in the muckle bine wis sooked on page 105

3 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
windaes ye could see a mixter-maxter o weel-keepit plants. Staunin on page 19
a private yin; a muckle mixter-maxter o books aw belangin tae Judge on page 38
here means "an uggsome mixter-maxter o hertscaud and horror." For on page 50

3 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
re, an the ither hauf a mixter-maxter o cowpt stooks edged wi a tid on page 17

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
Scots is nae mair nor a mixter-maxter o soonds and wirds, phonemes on page 3

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Douglas, Sheila Lallans 67 - William Motherwell (1797 - 1836), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
for swarees. This is a mixter-maxter o a collection but in the not on page 69

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McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 58 - Gairm review, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
s weel shawn furth wi a mixter-maxter o names for the ae callant: " on page 126

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
h'm getting uised tae a mixter-maxter complouther o: 'guid an bad a on page 132

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Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
m airlie epitaphs war a mixter-maxter o Scots an Latin, whilk ir we on page 91

1 matches

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 76 - The Factory, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, prose
maun be readin the same mixter-maxter o emotions frae ma ain face a
1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Here we can leuk tae a mixter-maxter o the raisons, gien abune, ho
ic play owerset intae a mixter-maxter o Scots and Inglis, wi a stra
auchle tung. Morgan’s mixter-maxter Inglis, leiterarie Scots and
3 matches

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
A mixter-maxter o a nicht for the Liberal Dem
1 matches

Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
in Scots developed as a mixter-maxter variant. Haein flittit frae G
1 matches

Ahmad, Nyla How We Celebrate – scrievin prompt, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
ctit. Kirn it in wi the mixter-maxter o plannin and excitement till
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
MIXTER-MAXTER on page 18

1 matches

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