A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

merest Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.9 1 0 0 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences62 0 0 4 0 0
Number of authors5 2 3

Occurrences of merest 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

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
On the merest smitch of a fag, Great-aunt L on page 54

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
e slightest bit ay power; the merest wee hint ay authority an they
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
inder it wis at shö hedna da merest glisk o an idea foo shö coul on page 40
me's lug, juist igg him on da merest scaar, an dere wi dat sam wid on page 72

2 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
her mouthful if they find the merest suspicion of a bone in their on page 9

1 matches

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