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Use in varieties of Scots

merit Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.2 8.1 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1716 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors11 10 1

Occurrences of merit in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
the yin her weans hud didnae merit honourin. Things she'd learnt on page 1

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
'm gettin assessed oan ma ain merit. on page 7

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
me auld story - we appynt on merit, no nationality. That's ay ve on page 74

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
'm gettin assessed oan ma ain merit. on page 7

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Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
es. Professor Fowler duis see merit on their challenge til ither on page 95
essibles and their debate the merit o a hearin, whit grunnd is th on page 96

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
of Stone’, an o parteiklar merit here ir Robb’s insichts int
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Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ey’ve ever done ay any real merit is The Joshua Tree but he jus
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“we'll dedicate the merit to her memory,” Surinder te
t for lifetimes tae attain be merit. As Dada wad hae sayed.
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Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
methin so far away, it disnae merit thinkin aboot. Then things ha
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Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
grunds o merit.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
and signage are important and merit discussion and action, but ar
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Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
Mair worthie recompence sould merit”.
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Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
mair worthie recompence sould merit’.
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Southern

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
in the Tang Dynasty, an thair merit an namelieheid at the hicht o on page 34

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