Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'merely'

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Use in varieties of Scots

merely	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.9	13	9
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland	11.6	2	1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)	70.3	2	1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central	45.9	1	1
SEC - (South) East Central	9.8	4	3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	2.6	2	2
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 merely in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Shetland

Johnson, Laureen Alice's Adventirs in Wonderlaand, (Evertype 2012 ISBN: 978-1782010081) Shetland - Voe, prose
cht at da Flunkey's head: hit merely took some sken aff o his nose on page 58
led back ta da game, da Wheen merely passin a remark at wan meenit on page 93

2 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
n crawled awy intill e gress, merely remarkan, as id went, "wan si on page 48
ied back till e game, e Queen merely remarkan at a meenad's delay on page 89

2 matches

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
...it's a school night! I wiz merely asking what's wrong my lovely(2011)

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
is fae a Norse scriever, wha merely suggestit they war a bittie o
1 matches

(South) East Central

McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
rs, or his idleness... he wad merely insist that he wis a mon's mo on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
thum. Merely fae jist observin their const on page 74
e hope hings might git better merely confirms the establishments p on page 92

2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
it many times and my post is merely to point out that other fans (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
worry. I’m confident it’s merely IBS’’.
1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
a meal A've sent back aifter merely a taste. on page 13

1 matches

Ewen, Allan Pairt Ane: Janus leuks back, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
ed Hame Rule. Whit we got wis merely recommendations. While Unioni
1 matches