A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mire Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.8 5.3 4.8 9.9 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1510 3 1 1 0 0
Number of authors10 6 2 1 1

Occurrences of mire 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

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
ps me oot. Tee-hee! Thon quaw mire is sair an deep, an the wey i on page 48

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
His ae cry like a mire-drum, ower an ower on page 45
thawless niver saftens intae mire, on page 76

2 matches

Morton, Elaine Lallans 61 - Twa poems, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central - Lothian, poetry
His ae cry like a mire-drum, ower an ower on page 60

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
e bat, The heather bleet, the mire snipe, How many birds be that
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
She drave it throu the mire;
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
e kilometres o clam an drowie mire whaur the anely biggins are t
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Yes Nae Mair, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
sinkin intae the yondermaist mire, seemed suddenly tae mean som
1 matches

Heather, Alistair The porage revolution: Hou porage cam tae mak Scotland habitable, (Mak Forrit 2017) Central - Angus, blog
, heid doun, throu the dub an mire, up tae wir oxsters in ignora
1 matches

Doric

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
e tae see the combine sink in mire.
1 matches

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
owe, bin, glen, strath, ness, mire, haugh, moss. Why have just s (2020) twitter link
owe, loch, heuch, ness, moss, mire, bay, naze, shank, ess. (2020) twitter link

Orkney

Johnston, Barbara Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Wateries, Pow, Mire, Gitter Pitten on page 11

1 matches

Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
da Busta Road an up ta Ladies Mire??? I hoop you gittin hom 0.00 (2019) twitter link