A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'merked'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
merkedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.9169
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 62.4 5 2
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 merked in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
ned it up far the meenister'd merked the place wi a lang reid ribb
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
bntton merked “ZERO”. There wis a dunt,
an Kirsty drapped frae a door merked “Exit” onno the meen itse
Mooch tuik a moufu frae a jar merked
3 matches

Edinburgh

Forde, Iain W D The Kirk, The Skuil, The Buik (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2007) Central, prose
frae foust an fog. The stane merked 'dictionar' bene eydentlie po on page 25

1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
ked taewards the gless panels merked Entrance.
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
First it merked oot a race-course, in a kind on page 27

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
O smeuk that merked oor fechtin in the shaw, on page 100

1 matches

Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
ppear on pages o the magazine merked 'Lallans for lairnin'. Onie p on page 4

2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ist moderately successful but merked the stert o a commitment til
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
," she said, "an say if eet's merked 'poison' or no"; cos she hed on page 12
much frae a bottle merked "poison", there's a guid chan on page 13
Firrst eet merked oot a race-course, in a sort on page 26

4 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
dugs, but naethin – she wis merked as a ‘missin person’. The
1 matches

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