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The word 'marless'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
marlessOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 32.8 3 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
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 marless in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
s pal's hauf-mast troosers an marless socks, "lut's ging an leuk oo on page 53

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
It is gye marless tae walk alang an nae see Ori(2014)
Affa marless gyan messages Christmas shopp(2015)
e with Kelly that it’s spelt marless. https://t.co/AotBpBqQw8(2019)

Aberdeen

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
Ye’v on marless sheen, Grunny said een day ai
Marless means mismatched apparently.
Marris, the same. Marless, the opposite. There seemed t
3 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
He got marless socks on on page 180

1 matches

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