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The word 'marry'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
marryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.71210
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.6 2 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 marry in Corpus

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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

General Northern

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

(South) East 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

West Central

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

Edinburgh

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

General Central

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

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

South East (Borders)

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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