A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'maria'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mariaOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1108
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 7.6 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.8 2 2
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 maria in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
They took him awa' in a Black Maria on page 29

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
rrit tae a Portuguese wumman, Maria 1050 de Almeida da Cruz
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
an Bruno Gollnisch (France), Maria Martens (Netherlands), Christ
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
uid hae been 'My Way' or 'Ave Maria', or even 'Ave Maria' his wey on page 101

2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“Ave Maria, gracia plena ...” Bill dau
“Ave Maria, gracia plena ...” Bill dau
2 matches

General Central

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
nie Fado cad Chuva forbye Ana Maria (young fadista) https://t.c(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - Where Dae Ye Catch the Bus Tae Sarajevo?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
w do you solve a problem like Maria? fae The Sound o’ Flamin Mu
1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
lly Naebody can airgue wi yon Maria, weel said, an yersel tae fir (2020) twitter link

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