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The word 'mercury'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mercuryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.6155
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
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 9.1 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 14.6 11 1
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 mercury in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
d roon eit floatct en a vat a mercury. Aifter aat deen, we pumpit u on page 5

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
re wis anither o a chiel caad Mercury, haudin a staff wi a sarpint
1 matches

Glasgow

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Mercury displays its liquid metal blu on page 15

1 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
se streets in February as the mercury plummets doon ablo the minus
1 matches

General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
s we ken. Benmaist the sun is Mercury that wheechs aboot the Sun il
mes baggit it will swallae up Mercury an Venus until its gird is th
Mercury
Mercury is cryed efter the Roman god
€“ an sae a swith traiveller. Mercury is the planet that bides near
11 matches

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