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The word 'merit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
meritOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71911
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 12.9 5 3
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 merit in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
the yin her weans hud didnae merit honourin. Things she'd learnt on page 1

1 matches

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
es. Professor Fowler duis see merit on their challenge til ither on page 95
essibles and their debate the merit o a hearin, whit grunnd is th on page 96

3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
and signage are important and merit discussion and action, but ar
1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 71 - Review - Auld Campaigner: A Life of Alexander Scott, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
of Stone’, an o parteiklar merit here ir Robb’s insichts int
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
me auld story - we appynt on merit, no nationality. That's ay ve on page 74

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“we'll dedicate the merit to her memory,” Surinder te
t for lifetimes tae attain be merit. As Dada wad hae sayed.
2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
ey’ve ever done ay any real merit is The Joshua Tree but he jus
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
methin so far away, it disnae merit thinkin aboot. Then things ha
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
grunds o merit.
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Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
Mair worthie recompence sould merit”.
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Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
mair worthie recompence sould merit’.
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
in the Tang Dynasty, an thair merit an namelieheid at the hicht o on page 34

1 matches

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