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The word 'meldrum'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
meldrumOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.3143
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 36 11 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 meldrum in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Citroen inte the car park it Meldrum Hoose "He's mair siller then on page 34
gaed e, Jar es te say at the Meldrum fairmer hid faan oot o the ug on page 48
Ronnie wis het-fittin it inte Meldrum te post is letter te the box on page 52
"Ay, ye'r nae wrang ere: Meldrum's an ill-fashioned divil o a on page 70
"Aricht, Saint Beldie o Meldrum, dinna git yersel aa wun up," on page 71

5 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
the one' goes on. The hapless Meldrum fairmer turns te modern techn on page 50
es an haudin up Jock's bar in Meldrum." on page 54

2 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
, es middle-age beckoned, the Meldrum fairmer's dream o finnin at p on page 35
ll mak a chynge fae gaun inte Meldrum - ye'r nivver gaun te transf on page 37

2 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
ics. However, wifie Broon fae meldrum will be wondering far her whi(2019)
ttie will be traipsin back ti meldrum. Howkin through I dreels. He (2019)

General Northern

@AMaxwell54 tweeted
trickit tae find 'is, bein' a Meldrum quine masel', an a richt teuc (2018) twitter link
Ah'm a quine fae Meldrum far aa ih teuchters spik ih D (2022) twitter link