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The word 'mire'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mireOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus51611
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 3
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 mire in Corpus

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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

Mid Northern A

Fairbairn, Jamie The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands) - Doric Corner, (DC Thomson 2024) Doric - Banff, newspaper
ee, dinna ging near the "Dire Mire" or you'll get stuck or even on page 37

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

General Northern

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

North East Central

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

(South) East 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 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

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

West Central

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

General Central

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

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

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