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The word 'merlin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
merlinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 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
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of merlin in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lands o Twatt, (Brisk Northerly 2018) Orkney, blog
life in the West Mainland. A merlin crosses a field in a January
1 matches

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
ss Pete Ellis and learn aboot Merlin/Peerie Hawk ?? https://t.co/0(2019)
future Peerie Hawk / Smyril / Merlin chick meal https://t.co/PDXuj(2019)

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
sie, or body, I micht hae bin Merlin, I felt that pouerfu, takkin on page 51

1 matches

General Central

solonggaybowser Merlin's Bairns, (archiveofourown.org 2020) Central, prose
fur seein efter them," sayed Merlin ower speakerphone.
fur tae pit aff his shuin in Merlin's hame. "Gled A kin finally m
"Crannie!" Merlin cryed on the cat, wi kissin s
The fain smirk in Merlin's vyce wis as plain as parrit
4 matches

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