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The word 'merket'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
merketOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.485
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 3
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
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 merket in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ang an ran a wee stall in the merket sellin gee-gaws rypit frae bo
d gae richt tae the tap o the merket an tak tae hissel a self-cont
e bidin in, bit the tap o the merket Quarrytowers suite he lued. T
3 matches

General Northern

Mitchell, Rhona Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Wye it Wis, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
crossed her ower the road at Merket Place. Aifter that somebody e on page 14

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Abody is happy doon i'merket place on page 156

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Lallans 73 - Obituary for David Ogston, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
nise the staws o the Medieval Merket, set oot in the area aroun th on page 12

1 matches

West Central

Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Prestwick, prose
ik steyed put in the American merket. Sik a howp wes weill up a cl on page 116

1 matches

Ayrshire

Lehane, Matt Tuim Tattie, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
fae a merket
1 matches

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