A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

merrier Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.3 1.1 0 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences42 0 0 1 0 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of merrier in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ome alang wi us, the mair the merrier.”
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
eers fir that - the mair the merrier - hope it goes ahead - derb (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Williamson, Christie Shaetlan an compoonds a da richt, (damagnifyingless.wordpress.com 2014) Shetland, blog
ny iddir body’s. Da mair da merrier. Whit unites wis isna at wir
1 matches

Ulster

@Angelinekking tweeted
hank you! The mair freens the merrier!(2020) search twitter