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Use in varieties of Scots

merciless Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2.1 3 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences74 2 0 0 1 0
Number of authors6 3 2 1

Occurrences of merciless in Corpus

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Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Then September brocht thae merciless pains, on page 16

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
o bein able tae. Due tae some merciless disease that hus taken posses on page 30
a peace lovin faither intae a merciless vigilante. In the back ae ma on page 88

2 matches

Shoor Caan, Angus Coont Thum: A hunner an' oad McLimericks, (self-published 2012 ISBN: 978-1480242425) Central - Ardrossan, poetry
r wuv jeest hud two days a’ merciless rain.
1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 90 - Mrs Cadwallader’s Conversion, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
ti greet. But McFarquhar wis merciless. on page 44

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ood. "A time fin the fear o a merciless God an the opeenion o ithers on page 43

1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Ay, it wus efter the merciless pillaging bi Edward I o Engla
1 matches

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