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The word 'merriet'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
merrietOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.2399
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 45.8 14 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 325.5 2 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 2
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 2.7 2 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) 218 12 2

Occurrences of merriet in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
in o Man. They ett, drank, an merriet till e day att Noah gaed inti on page 109

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ist a quine an wad likely get merriet: a waste o a guid education a
kennin, fur since they'd bin merriet she drappit a bairn ilkie yea
ddrach, some like masel fin I merriet yer faither. Anely they didna
wn bairns, 'Yer Da should hae merriet a shelt. He's half-shelt as i
t verra far langsyne fin they merriet, nae like her ma, fa belanged
6 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
the tale. "An she wisna lang merriet tae a fisherman loon. Noo, he
oiver, likit their executives merriet – fur, gin a boat ay dockit
ents an Brian. Tho they'd bin merriet noo a guid fyew months, he st
," he fuspered. "Ye sudna hae merriet him, Jenny. It's ay bin us th
the "auld friens" ploy. "She merriet a chiel frae Embro wye. An sh
7 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
ns on its ain as a guid read. Merriet til Fiona, the former laird's on page 124

1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
ns on its ain as a guid read. Merriet til Fiona, the former lairdâ€
1 matches

General Northern

Philip, George Luikin Back, (Jas Gaesham 2008 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Doric, prose
hill walkin, scrievin, airlie merriet life an carin for ralatives, on page 6

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 58 - Dour, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
n tae bide a holiday wi a new merriet cousin fa'd wad a Tarlan fair on page 51

2 matches

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
'How come aw these weemin ur merriet? Onyhow, ye're no supposed ta on page 141

1 matches

General Central

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - Three Waddins and Fowr Funerals - a monologue, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ino, ken. Trouble wis, he wis merriet. on page 59

2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

McDonald, Fiona Frae Cowie's Cragg, (Ulster-Scots Academy Press 2021 ISBN: B0949GXX7K) Ulster, poetry
Weel, Frank he wusnae merriet, an he had a fairm o lan. on page 3
oot at Loughriescouse. He wus merriet on Mary Wallace, an the' had on page 7
ggie, leevin noo, bot she wus merriet an leeved wi her man, Hugh Ma on page 15
airdlie weans noo. Oor Annies merriet an haes her ain weans, an oor on page 16

4 matches

Synthetic (no region)

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ither o Joseph, an Joseph wus merriet tae Mary. An Mary wus tha mit on page 1
us a proafitess. She haed bin merriet tae hir man for seiven yeir a on page 73
r sayed, 'Luk, A hae jist got merriet! A cannae cum.' " on page 95
s hïs wife a divorce an gets merriet agane ïs commïttin adultèr on page 98
wus eatin, drinkin an gettin merriet, up tae tha verie day Noah we on page 99
Also on pages 104
9 matches

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
Sing’l (nivver merriet an nivver in a ceevil pairtne
Merriet
Sindèrt; merriet gan
3 matches

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