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The word 'maisie'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
maisieOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus77.12566
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 58.9 18 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 31 7 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.2 5 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
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) 7354.6 224 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of maisie in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
'Maisie, oan the caal meat coonter it on page 22
e it the caal meat coonter an Maisie didna hae muckle chunce te sp on page 23
h canna believe at Motirmooth Maisie wisna able to full ye in oan on page 24
Ina leukit up te see Maisie fae caal meats comin spangin on page 25
"Ah met in wi Maisie oan my wye up the road," said on page 26
Also on pages 27
11 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
skirpin satt ower the pot fin Maisie plunkit the basket o hens'egg
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
e be as guid’s mine,” quo Maisie Higgins. “I’m giein her a
He didna like Maisie. She bett her nails an pickit
t Mrs Scott’s on a diet,” Maisie snappit. “She’ll nae be s
eese. Maisie Higgins hid skirled at yon, a
weeties. “Mrs Scott.” quo Maisie, “Here’s mine.”
6 matches

General Northern

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 81 - Pyntin the Been, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
Maisie Drummond wis near deminted. S on page 8

7 matches

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
hat place near StAndrews, but Maisie is welcome and Wednesday look(2020)
about your wee girl, and gave Maisie a huge hug. Horrible to lose (2020)
@TheGunnersPub Maisie’s coming, so nae shops ????(2020)
er hair done tomorrow. Me and Maisie have given her some encourage(2020)
dy cook time again for me and Maisie, where we pull some random st(2020)

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
m tray cairried by sonsie big Maisie in the Pictur Hoose. Maisie's on page 23

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
nered haird again the windae. Maisie lifted the lace curtain tae s on page 1
m oot o the boot o the motor. Maisie cocked hir heid an assessed t on page 2
"I beg yer pardon?" replied Maisie, riled bae the shicht in hir on page 3
Maisie blinked. Hir brither-in-law h on page 4
Maisie had taen Esther tae be in hir on page 5
Also on pages 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
224 matches

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