A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

meisur Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6 8.9 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences2018 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors11 9 1 1

Occurrences of meisur 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.

Central

Clark, Thomas Animal Fairm, (Luath 2023 ISBN: 978-1804250396) Central, prose
ut no thocht tae hae the same meisur o smeddum. Aw the ither male on page 6

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
rooks.' Bit he wis gainin the meisur o it. on page 14

7 matches

Pete, Fortune Lallans 102 - Trotsky's Treatment, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
haes gien me a gowpen o guid meisur: as weill as bein eident in t on page 91

1 matches

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
e Ishbel. "Aye, she's gat the meisur o ye, ya silly mutt." on page 1

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 81 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central - Prestwick, newspaper
er-tension thrawn in for guid meisur. In 'A Day at Edinbro Feestiv on page 5

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
d by Goad and lunacy in equal meisur, an the oorie tale o weemen i on page 59

1 matches

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Prestwick, prose
hrappil cut, an wha, for guid meisur, kythes raiglar i the distric on page 138

1 matches

Hodgson, Brent Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
oke o cats thrawn in for guid meisur. But gin oor midgie man is fa on page 91

1 matches

Forde, Iain W D Hale Ir Sindries - Buik Twa, (Fons Scotiae 2000) Central, prose
the vissiers cam ti meisur the flowe o wattir, at wes ma
ti meisur up hiz ventur. The puir sowel
2 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
e victual dealers tae get oor meisur o barley alang wi ither dried
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
dawn, or served him up a hauf-meisur in a pint-stowp, that he did
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
rocht in mony a gey Draconian meisur frae the Government, tae limi
1 matches

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
y murdert. Thir ae planet tae meisur. The only subjeck Olaf enjoye on page 37

1 matches

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