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The word 'margit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
margitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.8364
ORK - Orkney 198.7 20 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 52.3 16 3
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)
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 margit in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
Tell him Margit sent ye." Like Eynar, Margit on page 9
An Margit turns. "I waant gets notheen, on page 40
ip is Orcadia's craesh thinks Margit, waatchan her smoosie bairn a on page 95
ie says, "Hid's no jeust me," Margit disno ken whit sheu means. Bu on page 96
Margit kens her meaneen. Affens fock on page 97
Also on pages 140, 146, 147, 148
20 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
ckless frontless frock That's Margit - her fowk wis Bill an Nelli on page 15

1 matches

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
til fyle aye weis yappen tae "Margit" Aik's wyfe. Aye lyket Margit on page 30

4 matches

Johnston, Mary Lallans 81 - A Day at Edinbro Feestival, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Doric, prose
A fyow year back, ma niece, Margit, invited me doon ti Edinbro f
at att time. Ye dinna mind on Margit? Alex an Jean’s lassie? Min
eether? Aa weel, nae metter. Margit, e allest didna like it an ca
okin furrit til a whilie awa. Margit winted me ti tak a train but
Margit keppit me aff e bus an kis o
11 matches

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