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The word 'mairower'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mairowerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.8168
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 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 15.8 12 5
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 mairower in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
wi hey tae line an warm them. Mairower, she hidna telt her ma that h
1 matches

Edinburgh

Pyper, Hugh S. The Five Scrolls, (Handsel Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1912052790) Central, poetry
nheid wis passt in Edinburgh, mairower in Morningside, wi aa that me on page vii

1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
ack tae me i’ my dream. And mairower, the wirds o the sang cam bac
nar taen Cameron and his men. Mairower it wis the maist rowthie crap
2 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin The Student and the Pawnwife , (Itchy Coo 2003 ISBN: 978-1902927817) Central, prose
s heid wis birlin an his mou, mairower, bleezed wi his drouth. He wi on page 140

2 matches

Scottish Parliament Scots Leids Bill – Stage 1 Report, (The Scottish Parliament 2024) Central, government
uils themsels. They tuik tent mairower, houaniver, that the list o t on page 32
kers o Gaelic. They tuik tent mairower that, while walcomin the accr on page 34

3 matches

Freeman, Fred Lallans 102 - Burns, Hamish and Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
Mairower, Burns, wha is steekit in the on page 61
llant forward gey swack-like. Mairower, like the title itsel, Spea-k on page 64

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
iatin words sic as hooever an mairower can help tae uphaud a formal on page 11

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
Mairower, the lines ‘As hostage in È
she hauds a quill and a buik. Mairower, echoin in style the letterin
2 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
or tae limit its circulation. Mairower, there is siblike evidence fa
thegither the manuscript and, mairower, explicitly celebrate her ain
2 matches

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