A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

merle Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 3 0 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences76 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of merle in Corpus

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Central

Mackintosh, Jim The Banes o the Turas, (Tippermuir 2022 ISBN: 978-1913836313) Central, poetry
tae the sang o the merle an on page 25

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
wis a warm gowden nicht and a merle wis singin somewhaur nearby. on page 229

1 matches

Cameron, Peter Lallans 59 - Yowdendrift / Gin I Kent, (Lallans Magazine 2021) Central, poetry
a merle's or a mavis' sang. on page 139

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
the likes o the Villanelle in Merle on a Rowan. His In Praise o S
1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 74 - Distempered, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
Ma merle, A wunner fit’s happent tae
1 matches

Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
@AngelaGraham8 Used the merle on whin as a logo...sorry sho(2020) search twitter