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The word 'mairries'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mairriesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.486
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.2 2 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of mairries in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
hiel att pits awa his wife an mairries anither commits adultery, an on page 108

2 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
t mind this - gin yer prince mairries anither, syne at dawn on the on page 121

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
d be the hangman as lang's he mairries yin o the
hingit" warks an the Provost mairries the pair on the spot an the
2 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 75 - Review - The Shorter fiction, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
Sir Philip Forester mairries Jemmie Falconer, whause aulde
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
ayed by masel. At the end, he mairries this bonnie young lassie he's on page 75

1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
s. Kemp’s ‘Stage Scots’ mairries leiterarie Scots wi whit JT L
1 matches

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