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Use in varieties of Scots

merrie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1.5 1.5 0 5.8 0 8.9
Number of occurrences73 1 0 1 0 2
Number of authors5 2 1 1 1

Occurrences of merrie in Corpus

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Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 70 - A Bannock Day’s Pley for Thrie Fowk, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, script
Fermer Sandie: Ye'r in merrie pin, ma dawtie. Hou is it tha on page 48

2 matches

Stevenson, Gerda Quines: Poems in tribute to women of Scotland, (Luath 2020 ISBN: 978-1913025502) Central, poetry
a merrie Phoenix that wull rise afore on page 38

1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
d gaen back tae Sri Lanka tae merrie Lakshmi, a nurse, an tae ster
1 matches

Shetland

Jamieson, Robert Alan Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
wyes a'winnin trow an makkin merrie, on page 13

1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
¯t wud be faur bettèr no tae merrie ava!" jesus saed, "It's no iv on page 9
fe wi nae weans, then he maun merrie tha weeda an hae childèr for on page 104

2 matches

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