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The word 'married'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
marriedOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus93024
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 3
WCE - West Central 22.2 5 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire 32 3 2
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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 married in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
a pretty woman, but she never married.') on page 106

1 matches

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
Fock new married, or newly boarn, or on page 46

1 matches

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Announcin Truncherfaece twins, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
eddin last Aagust? Wir Taedir married Olina Terrie Mittens. An noo
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"You're so lucky being married to a painter. It sounds so ro on page 44

1 matches

Facebook link ( 2012) Doric - Buckie
8 Cliff street Buckie till i married n moved tae Gamrie. Been in G

@DoricPhrases tweeted
murraytennisfan ma Auntie wis married across the road fae there! Ne(2014)

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Al Fresco, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
“Petrie” had married Frank efter her bairn time wi
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
lf, and ye generally find him married and standin at the door o his
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
Cannae be bad though, 64 yrs married and still going ??(2020)

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
h'll forget who ah've said is married tae who. on page 57
hat wan ae us knew wis gettin married, an Charlene's ma wis gaunnae on page 108
mpbell's big brother's gettin married this Saturday. Clicky's been on page 169

3 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
ll’s big brother’s gettin married this Saturday. Clicky’s bee
1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
pissed her aff mair if ah’d married Andy’s sister, Kate. Want a
1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ou realised I’d have to get married and have a family some time?
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
She hud met hur ain good man, married young n hud ma cousin, Stacey on page 37

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
a hoose, again when they get married, again when they huv a wean, on page 3

1 matches

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
It cannae be yir Ma, cos she married me.
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
un in_ys parish were lawfully married at Gakstoun Nov 29 1711'sae r on page 70

1 matches

Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
a wee drink when his boy gets married?
uid thing ah ever did wis get married tae ye? He never had ony time
2 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Gone are the Leaves, (ISIS 2014 ISBN: 978-1445099262) Central, prose
ough he and My Lady have been married lang enough tae faither a who on page 3

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
st a wee ane. That he'd niver married or haen a faimly. Oan the ith on page 16

1 matches

Docherty, John F. Lallans 82 - Lang Summer Days Pairt 2, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
thew an Susan. Efter they git married they wir uffa lovey-dovey, ye on page 46

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 74 - Less Trauchle Nor A Bairn, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
ower forty yeir auld, ay, an married oan a kizzen an aw, shuid niv
1 matches

Stewart, Anna An Alien Feeling, (Scots Hoose 2019) Central, prose
elf fae my face. We’ve been married a lot o years. When yiv been
a lot o years. When yiv been married aw that time, it’s inevitab
2 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
EuansSon Most of ma mates are married, movin oot, etc... gettin’ a(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
a’y wore makeup. She wisnae married or anything, which wis a sham
1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
ister, his other sister Senga married Henry Butler and they lived i(2020)

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