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The word 'mer'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
merOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.898
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
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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 mer in Corpus

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West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
, Ah mean... wee sa va bee-en mer-see. on page 21

1 matches

Calderwood, Lynsey Mumbo Jumbo, (Litro magazine 2006) Central, prose
Ah mean ... wee sa va bee-en mer-see.
1 matches

Glasgow

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
tae dub me a Sir Galahad. (Ma mer’s heid wiz ay mair intae Ma
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin The Pusher, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Yae wir probly preoccupied wi mer important matters wen wae met
ossip an hearsay wen idle. Av mer leisure time noo, yae see. Bu
2 matches

General Central

Lang, Charles nobody remembers the birdman - Good Friday, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, poetry
wered. Is it possible tae eat mer than three on page 88

1 matches

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
after next tae save up a bit mer for it n a just KNOW suhin ab (2018) twitter link

@raiphsays tweeted
janaway Aye! Ye cannae fine a mer versatile tawtie!(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
"Dae ye no mine mer" Hir red lips strained intae on page 6

1 matches

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