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The word 'maistres'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
maistresOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.1272
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 58.5 24 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 1
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 maistres in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
Dinna tak aw thon stuffrie, Maistres, “ wes hiz aveisement. “T
an broth, fur lik Maistres Nisbet, the Border fowk hed a
“Nae Maistres,” thai reponed, “thai’r
“Maistres Stein, Mirren’s awauk nou !
Than Maistres Stein, the auld carling, cam
24 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
Guid Maistres McGuigan, on page 25

1 matches

General Central

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
Poem 85 names ‘Maistres Marie’ ootricht, compares h
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
ack tae her. Poem 85 names ‘Maistres Marie’ ootricht, associates
1 matches

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