A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

merely Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.9 4 4.4 0 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences138 3 0 2 0 0
Number of authors9 6 2 1

Occurrences of merely in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
a meal A've sent back aifter merely a taste. on page 13

1 matches

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
rs, or his idleness... he wad merely insist that he wis a mon's mo on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
thum. Merely fae jist observin their const on page 74
e hope hings might git better merely confirms the establishments p on page 92

2 matches

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
is fae a Norse scriever, wha merely suggestit they war a bittie o
1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ed Hame Rule. Whit we got wis merely recommendations. While Unioni
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
worry. I’m confident it’s merely IBS’’.
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
it many times and my post is merely to point out that other fans (2020) twitter link

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
n crawled awy intill e gress, merely remarkan, as id went, "wan si on page 48
ied back till e game, e Queen merely remarkan at a meenad's delay on page 89

2 matches

@Franwella tweeted
...it's a school night! I wiz merely asking what's wrong my lovely(2011) search twitter

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
cht at da Flunkey's head: hit merely took some sken aff o his nose on page 58
led back ta da game, da Wheen merely passin a remark at wan meenit on page 93

2 matches

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