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The word 'axe'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
axeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus7.12315
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 325.5 2 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 2
NEC - North East Central 92.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 axe in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Roseanne Moder Dy, (Polygon 2019 ISBN: 978-1846974878) Shetland, poetry
is I hardly mind mysel. Dunna axe me. Laeve me. I hae no time f on page 26

1 matches

Cumming, John Kirsten, (Shetland For Wirds 2006) Shetland, prose
ll come an tell dee der name, axe dee PB, tell dee aboot der ma
boot der maist recent injury, axe if du's nervees, dat kinda sh
2 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
ns. Da idea is d'ir a wye tae axe fir confirmation. Athin Stand

South Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caw, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2020) Doric - Stonehaven, prose
rk faced fucker’s draps the axe an’s runnin aboot wi baith
other bastard he picks up the axe an puts it atween the big fel
2 matches

General Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
took him; that hureson's axe carvt on page 25

2 matches

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
chap went Jonsar Eck's little axe as, he hacked ten bags
1 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
g Geryon advanced wi a muckle axe but Hercules didna hae ony st on page 43
axe jist as it wis aboot tae faw on page 44

2 matches

(South) East Central

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
A've broken ma guid battle-axe.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
waitin for the heid-snedder's axe. on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
as Violet and Klaus brung the axe doon on each log, brekkin it on page 58
if in a dwaum. She swung the axe doon and split a log neatly i on page 59

2 matches

Robson, Frances Lallans 74 - Gentlemen of the road, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
sic Ah hear is the dunt o the axe
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2019) Central
se an airm needs amputatit an axe is selectit... Ay an axe... a
is selectit... Ay an axe... a big ane. It's placed aga
which is aised tae thump the axe intae the flesh ower and ower

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
NeilSNP Whit de ye means real axe? You already at the end of th(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
the life o me, unnerstaun why Axe keeps Spyros aroond. Whit dis(2020)

South East (Borders)

@jamie_ginger tweeted
_91 amd mcloed could swing an axe prity hard..(2012)

South West (Galloway)

Briggs, Susi Diva, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central - Dumfries and Galloway, poetry
She gifted me an axe.
1 matches

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