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The word 'merried'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
merriedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71513
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 3
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 2
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry) 163.5 1 1
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 88.3 1 1
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 merried in Corpus

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Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Bessie, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
I wis baptised, I wis merried, on page 18

1 matches

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
o miracluous; merried wae twa young bairns an a new on page 7

1 matches

Grieve, Ingrid Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Merried on page 120

1 matches

Aberdeen

The Flying Pigs Use of the common good fund for slap-up feed merely follows in grand old tradition, (Press and Journal 2018) Doric, newspaper
kking about yon pair that got merried in the branch o’ Starbucks
ut fit wid it be like tae get merried in the place far ye first met
2 matches

General Northern

Gilbert, Jo Tales Fae The Doric Side - The mornin o the waddin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
've nae idea fit wye folk get merried onywye. Maist couples here ha on page 98

2 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
osands in compensation an she merried the stable lad instead. They on page 89

1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
merried we twa kids on page 77

1 matches

Rebecca, Casey and Stephen The Baby Dragon, the Wolves and the Lassies, (Scots Hoose 2017) Doric, weans
spell on years afore. Rebecca merried the prince and they lived hap
1 matches

Edinburgh

Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
'But they'r no merried, ur they?' on page 76

1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Newly-merried they were ana. on page 35

1 matches

West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Or maybe she merried a fermer on page 22

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
nd he was fond o the lassies; merried twice to strikingly beautiful on page 33

1 matches

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Fenton, James On Slaimish, (Ullans Press 2009 ISBN: 9781905281299) Ulster, poetry
ked his wie through the worl. Merried, aye. A wee wumman that come on page 49

1 matches

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