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The word 'meisure'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
meisureOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.1208
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 20.3 8 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 52.4 4 1
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 5
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 meisure in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
benefit O his windfaa's true meisure: on page 14

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
lie athoot giein the leid the meisure o respeck that micht be expec
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
te tae traivel afore they can meisure up tae whit's
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 149, (self-published 2006) Central, newspaper
ge. It's true that they got a meisure o that, but juist the yince i
or favour, it gied a walcome meisure o respectability an uphaud ta
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 114, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
nguage plans will eik tae the meisure o uphaud athort Scotland."
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
tae study language on a braid meisure an wi an accuracy that ither-
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 102, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
on wis richt guid an shawed a meisure o imagination an humour. For
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Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
a meisure o collusion - weill, he thoc
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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
up an went tae the table tae meisure hersel by it, an fand that, a on page 19

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
they are blessed in nae smaa meisure wi guid Christian charity an on page 29
fortune wis due in nae short meisure tae a canny faither, wha'd le on page 48

3 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
ur, stumour and vex you ayont meisure. In yer radgest dreams you co on page 60

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
r tae shoogle ower an reach a meisure o agreement. on page 56

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Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
omotion an teachin o Gaelic a meisure o success
ions ingaithered awned that a meisure o credibility
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Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
ht by a straucht gait. By ony meisure, we can agree this a stannart
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Fitt, Matthew Whuppity Stoorie, (Scots Hoose 2017) Central, weans
mmin's name. Blythe beyond aw meisure, the young wife creepit oot t
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Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
e’d hae had them - in guid meisure!
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