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Use in varieties of Scots

marry Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.9 4.3 1.6 9.9 5.8 10.9 0
Number of occurrences128 1 1 1 1 0
Number of authors10 6 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of marry 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.

Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
'MARRY-JEW-ANNA,' he bawls. Tich-tic on page 1

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
wur too fond o the drink tae marry, so he saw it as his responsi on page 49
d and whoever they wanted tae marry wis their oyster. Me and the on page 113

2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
and go free, with no need to marry the gallus childe’. It is s
1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
us by the lassies, is wha we marry. Mebbe that’s the point the
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
to start a business, probably marry Rashida.”
A girl my parents want me to marry.” “An arranged marriage?
2 matches

@MartinBroon tweeted
@claregrogan2 Still want tae marry ye?? ??(2020) search twitter

Doric

Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
that ney wye wid she marry him. Jane said "she coodnae l
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
pan, thir wirds sweetchan tae marry Darling's awn, on page 84

1 matches

Shetland

Tait, John M Lallans 58 - Sheltie Prattle an da Blue Lowe (a Pantomime) , (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, prose
ity, it is politic for you to marry one of the daughters of the T on page 35

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
sum. Ay, it’s juist is auld Marry Elliot o
1 matches

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