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Use in varieties of Scots

mercury Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 6.7 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1513 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 3 2

Occurrences of mercury in Corpus

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Central

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Mercury displays its liquid metal blu on page 15

1 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
s we ken. Benmaist the sun is Mercury that wheechs aboot the Sun il
mes baggit it will swallae up Mercury an Venus until its gird is th
Mercury
Mercury is cryed efter the Roman god
€“ an sae a swith traiveller. Mercury is the planet that bides near
11 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
se streets in February as the mercury plummets doon ablo the minus
1 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
d roon eit floatct en a vat a mercury. Aifter aat deen, we pumpit u on page 5

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
re wis anither o a chiel caad Mercury, haudin a staff wi a sarpint
1 matches

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