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The word 'mairrage'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mairrageOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus8.12713
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 25 19 8
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of mairrage in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Ah'm hin a proposal o mairrage bit I felt hid wis too much, on page 43

1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
s. Shü wis fae Chloe's first mairrage, an her faider deeid on page 9
gyaain ta jeopardise dy third mairrage fur a lass du hardly kens!" on page 40

3 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
fir me, war replaced wi wirk, mairrage an bairns. Ah'm a country qui on page 21
ma she's stairtit signin the mairrage certificate in pincil." She g on page 77

2 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
man for syven eer efter their mairrage, an syne bi hersel as a weeda on page 83

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
jority wis nivver gonnae h, a mairrage o equals. The democratic defi on page 28

1 matches

General Central

Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 90 - The Missus, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Central, poetry
Twis ma faither denying oor mairrage wis wrang, on page 23

1 matches

Philip, Andrew Lallans 70 - Fower Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
er shuts afore the gloamin an mairrage wis that unco til her hauns, on page 55

1 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
rannie an wooit Alfdi, an the mairrage wis held oan Aud's muckle fer on page 14

6 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Lallans 104 - Whaur Div Ye Belang Tae?, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
cam tae Scotland bi gait o a mairrage treaty wi Denmark in 1469. on page 40

5 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
"The mairrage laws aroond here are gey simp on page 146

1 matches

Matheson, Ann Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
us bigotry anent their 'mixed mairrage', Sean an Chrissie ettle tae on page 90

1 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
ey are tae equal richts anent mairrage,
oot throu mairrage and at its upbrak.
2. Mairrage shal be gane intil wi the fre
3 matches

astrothsknot The Auld Man O Jerah, (archiveofourown.org 2018) Central, prose
a lassie thit disnae wait tae mairrage afore she stoaps hidin she’
1 matches

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