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Use in varieties of Scots

myrtle Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.9 0.5 23.7 0 5.8 31 7.7
Number of occurrences231 16 0 1 3 2
Number of authors6 1 1 1 2 1

Occurrences of myrtle in Corpus

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Central

Aitchison, Craig Lallans 102 - Sea Room and Hunger Stanes, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
Myrtle, Wave, Blossom, Harmony. on page 43

1 matches

Doric

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 82 - Beyond The Pale , (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric - Aberdeen, prose
fower year. That, an mi wife Myrtle takin a pint tummler o barley on page 72
In oor case, cos Myrtle had nae lang plunted her hyac on page 76
'Here's fit we'll dae,' says Myrtle, chirpy as a lintie. 'This is on page 77

16 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
an tha Myrtle, an aa seeven fishermen aboar on page 88

1 matches

Southern

Neill, Willie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern, poetry
aw leaves growin daurk on the myrtle shaw; on page 137

1 matches

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
hay hed threi dochters, Ella, Myrtle an than Margaret born 1946.
The middle yin, Myrtle, wis the Mulsintoun servan-la
2 matches

Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
tweeting this earlier The Bog Myrtle! These are great! You're weel(2020) search twitter
ither class poem frae The Bob Myrtle! https://t.co/L42eNnZbRC(2020) search twitter