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The word 'maa'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
maaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.1179
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 52.3 9 4
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 24.8 4 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of maa in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
ta maa hit, bind hit, stook hit on page 25
aap flees low, minds toons aa maa'd on page 36

2 matches

Peterson, George P.S. Nannie Georgedaughter, (Shetland For Wirds 2002) Shetland, prose
An whit a help he wis! He maa’d, an he kwarved, an he col
1 matches

Laurenson, Hannah Lisa Da Maa's Eggs, (Hands Up For Trad 2019) Shetland, prose
a story aboot you fitching da Maa’s eggs?” whinned Rasmie a
and clim doon it tae fitch da maa’s eggs. My aldest bridder w
is we took da eggs awa and da maa wid come tawards you, head fi
usta whaar in exchange for da maa’s eggs we wid git some brea
4 matches

Walterson, Barbara Da Trow o’ Fogla Skerry, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
ae me. He pit a peerie rippek maa made oot o’ wid in da palm
sy lookin at da widden rippek maa da Trow haed geen me.
2 matches

Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
ol, Ronalt," Ronalt jist geid maa glower eis usual, cus hee fyn on page 26

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
sh maanie best - he aye left maa sweetie oan the post o the ga on page 88

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
an idiot fae day wan, said ma maa. Aye, said ma gran, But he'd on page 169

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ir oot o thaim. That wis whit Maa sayed. She wis blithe tae hae
ot ever talkin it ower, he an Maa had baith felt the same blate
an she wis a guid lass. Whan Maa dee’d, an he gied up the gr
he’d made it clear that sin Maa dee’d, Bapu relied on her,
4 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Mair Licht, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
awaa an askit yer Maa
1 matches

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