A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mirry Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.4 0 6 29.8 23.2 0 0
Number of occurrences110 4 3 4 0 0
Number of authors8 1 3 4

Occurrences of mirry in Corpus

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Doric

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ak yer rist, ett, drink an be mirry."' Bit God says till him, 'Ye on page 102
freens an neepers sayin, 'Mak mirry wi me, A've faun ma yowie att on page 106
freens an neepers sayin, "Mak mirry wi me, cause A''ve faun ee si on page 107

4 matches

Orkney

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Mirry dancers on page 112

1 matches

Orkney Voices Group Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Mirry Dancers on page 136

1 matches

Miller, Alison The Point o Tinsal, (Dictionaries of the Scots Language 2021) Orkney, poetry
The Mirry Dancers skyran high abune
1 matches

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
n, peerie dear tings, dey cam mirry an jimpin alang haand in haan on page 80

1 matches

Greig, Charles A Shetland Bible, (Saint Andrew Press 2009 ISBN: 978-0715209158) Shetland - Lerwick, prose
aafil bricht licht - lik da mirry-dancers - lichtit up da lift on page 159

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
crackle lik mirry-dancers i da lift. on page 26

1 matches

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
oors gazin at da stars and da mirry-dancers, in me rubber böts a(2016) search twitter

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