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The word 'mackay'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mackayOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.33117
ORK - Orkney 39.7 4 3
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 22.2 5 3
NEC - North East Central 91.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central 18 7 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
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 mackay in Corpus

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Orkney

Orkney Voices Group Gallows Ha, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
Watchers, the play bi George Mackay Brown produced as a film in l on page 34

1 matches

Miller, Alison Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, prose
kk, best-loved writer, George Mackay Brown. The GMB Fellowship Boa on page 9

2 matches

Hall, Simon W. Tame Hogmanay, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
I’m minded o George Mackay Brown and Ernest Marwick writ
1 matches

Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Swiet Haar, (Abersee Press 2017) Shetland, poetry
George Mackay Brown on page 21

1 matches

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
owk lik @SimonWHall an George Mackay Broon (though he probably pre (2020) twitter link

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 73 - Obituary for David Ogston, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
issiont bi David, frae George Mackay Brown, an read bi Tam Fleming on page 12

1 matches

Murdoch, Steve Lallans 63 - A keik at the Swedish game o bandy, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
o the Scottish regiments, ‘Mackay’s Regiment’, wes weel ken
print. Maist o the sudjers in Mackay’s regiment wes Gaels. Fae 1
2 matches

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@FaeFoggie @andiabz Mackay's o Queens Street. Mi'be yer (2019)
d remind me o Gran and Granda Mackay's hoose.(2020)

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Lat the auld witch burn, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
e in wi him, auld Mrs Magaret MacKay.
ck Sellar killt this auld Mrs MacKay. He burnt the hoose wi her al
2 matches

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 61 - The Mass Jack, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
Yakcam's richt name wis Eck Mackay, but he got cried 'Yakcam' ki on page 85

2 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
t him, "An the ithers is Alec Mackay, Robert Stoddart an Michael M on page 26

5 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ht you 'ae speak, fuckin John Mackay? Every word enunclated tae fu on page 3

1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
o look richt or seem the Real Mackay - that 's acause it likely i on page 20

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
y in a shoap. It wis the real Mackay, a burny hame-brewed bree tha on page 64

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
Heartland, John MacKay, Luath Press, Edinburgh, 2004 on page 91

3 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
le micht airt us tae the Rael Mackay.
e cheil descrived is the Rael Mackay – an unkent object in the l
2 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
an the short stories o George Mackay Brown, Anne Donovan an Iain C (2018) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Stevenson, Gerda Cat Wumman: Tales O Nine Lives - The Witch, (Luath 2025 ISBN: 978-1804252420) Central - Peebles, prose
t wi some sense?! Get oot Mrs Mackay's gairden this meenit! Baith on page 43

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
nnie ae subjeck n’. Geordie MacKay wis Mrs Forman’s
1 matches

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