Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'gurly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

gurly	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.2	17	6
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A	32.7	10	1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen	21.9	2	1
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.5	1	1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire	13.1	1	1
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
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 gurly 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.

Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
en a weet deck in the teeth o gurly gale. Sae wretched the voyage
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
olar panels, a bield agin the gurly gales o sizzens that war tilt
ht be mair sattled an nae sae gurly , fyles."
terfu. Betimes quaet; betimes gurly . Aywyes sleekit fin she met t
3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
er this time roon, till a wee gurly mowdie powkit its snoot up oo
oto the grun an said in a wee gurly mowdie’s screich, “Be qua
almichty BANG. The lift grew gurly , the sun birled roon, the map
rumfy, girny, ill-naturet, an gurly . He treetled in latchy, hingi
A muckle gurly tyke lowpit ooto a close an l
6 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 90 - The Trump, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, poetry
He mairches awa, leukin gurly an grim on page 35

1 matches

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 87 - Andy, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, prose
eston, the widder becam byous gurly. There was a reevin win blawi on page 30

1 matches

General Northern

Blackhall, Sheena The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - Dother o the Sea, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric, weans
he win blew saft, syne turned gurly. Lichtnin crackit, timmers sk on page 115

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
in my time', says he in that gurly voice. 'Nou ye're here ye can on page 71

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
sprauchlt hoch-deep throu the gurly broun watters o the Ayr - th on page 53

1 matches

General Central

McClure, Derrick J. Lallans 67 - Andra’s Sang, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
The gurly storm-wunns raired. on page 50

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
The burns were gurly wi broon watter.
1 matches