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The word 'mairryin'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mairryinOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7126
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
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
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.6 8 3
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of mairryin in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
a smile, "He's spokken aboot mairryin noo an again, bit what wid I on page 50
e wid a gotten it, seein he's mairryin nixt year, bit it's fokk fae on page 72

2 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
ukit bi him ower the affair o mairryin Herodias, his brither Pheelip on page 84

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
"Whit wid I want wi mairryin yer sister?" on page 97
af is up tae. He's plannin on mairryin ye for real, while you and Ju on page 100
e her een. "Onythin? Likesay, mairryin me durin the morra nicht's pe on page 107
aboot a shady ploy tae dae wi mairryin Violet and pauchlin the Baude on page 127
t no as scary as the thocht o mairryin Coont Olaf." on page 129

5 matches

Clark, Thomas The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Tale o Three Dugs, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
e week. She'd ayeweys fancied mairryin a sodger, she tellt them aw. on page 48

1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
st as me, I micht think aboot mairryin him. But,” she shrugged,
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
s kythe micht allou fur her mairryin her jo.
1 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
had waited tae the war afore mairryin. She micht hae fell fur a ric on page 24

1 matches

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