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The word 'axt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
axtOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus34.41125
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
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) 721.8 23 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region) 1562.6 86 1

Occurrences of axt in Corpus

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Shetland

Cumming, John Da Whillie, (Shetland For Wirds 2010) Shetland, prose
e tied up, he clamb aboard an axt fur da skyipper. He hed a duf
1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
ear that the three weelàsses axt Dodgson fur a story an, reluc on page v
es oot?" a hale lock o voices axt. on page 27
ize dae yae want tae bae?" it axt. on page 50
"Hoo am A gan tae git in?" axt Alice agane, in a louder tone on page 57
said Alice, "but A hinnae bin axt yit." on page 64
Also on pages 68, 71, 72, 73, 82, 87, 91, 93, 94, 95, 99, 102, 113, 119
23 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
"Ir ye aaricht, Wullie? she axt. "Hoo cum yer no dressed? D'y on page 18

1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Davie axt, half coddin. on page 19

1 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ast cum tae Jerusalem an the' axt, "Whar ïs tha yin that haes on page 2
. "Tha men wur dumfoonért an axt, "Whut kine o a man ïs this? on page 9
Zechariah axt tha angel: on page 69
Mary axt tha angel, on page 70
Sae the' axt tha wean's faither bi makin s on page 71
Also on pages 73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 88, 90, 94, 95, 97, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112
86 matches

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