A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'meer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
meerOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.1104
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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) 204.9 4 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of meer in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
cht sleepin in the strae wi a meer at foalin time. Fin Fauldie t
iver seen the staig mount the meer? Or the bull in the park wi t
winnerfu beast could serve a meer ilkie twa oors day an nicht a
he thocht on Epona, the Great Meer, the Goddess o Horsemen worsh
4 matches

West Central

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
binna the auld meer champin her yeukie heels. on page 131

1 matches

General Central

@OliphantWullie tweeted
@DrMDempster AND Meer auf Deutsch Michael !! Anithe (2022) twitter link

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Her Meer's chain o gowden flooers on page 2
are guid foarm, as he pit tha meer awa, on page 4
Fur whar yin meer stud fower oor bak, afore him on page 5

4 matches

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