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The word 'merle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
merleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of merle in Corpus

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(South) East Central

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

West Central

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

General 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

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

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

General Ulster

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