A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mer Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 4.1 1.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences108 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors9 7 1 1

Occurrences of mer in Corpus

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Central

Lang, Charles nobody remembers the birdman - Good Friday, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
wered. Is it possible tae eat mer than three on page 88

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
, Ah mean... wee sa va bee-en mer-see. on page 21

1 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Mumbo Jumbo, (Litro magazine 2006) Central, prose
Ah mean ... wee sa va bee-en mer-see.
1 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
tae dub me a Sir Galahad. (Ma mer’s heid wiz ay mair intae Ma
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Yae wir probly preoccupied wi mer important matters wen wae met
ossip an hearsay wen idle. Av mer leisure time noo, yae see. Bu
2 matches

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
after next tae save up a bit mer for it n a just KNOW suhin ab (2018) twitter link

@raiphsays tweeted
janaway Aye! Ye cannae fine a mer versatile tawtie!(2020) search twitter

Doric

Lawrie, Alistair Caal Cries, (Drunk Muse Press 2023 ISBN: 978-1399964678) Doric - Stonehaven, poetry
An mer A bit o baith hauds me. I wea on page 10

1 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
"Dae ye no mine mer" Hir red lips strained intae on page 6

1 matches

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