A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

burra Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words20 25.5 0 0 81.4 0 0
Number of occurrences6248 0 0 14 0 0
Number of authors5 1 4

Occurrences of burra in Corpus

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Central

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
e day - go on lads n mon the burra ! (2020) twitter link
y - a wisnae sure - mon the burra (2020) twitter link
stunned wae thae tweets fae 2 burra lads - hae yous went saft lo (2021) twitter link
in effort n a half n get thae burra lads fired up fir the trip ta (2020) twitter link
elburghAth sum result for the burra there against the lowland lea (2020) twitter link
and 42 other occurrences.

Shetland

Mundair, Raman Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
steadies slips an grips da burra on page 10

1 matches

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
wis a poor bit a laand, foo a burra an floss whin da Tamsons cam on page 7
ertile oot a dat wilderness a burra an floss, rigs ats been negle on page 10
its mixture a ling heddir, an burra, an coorse girse. An you appr on page 91
er swittlin gently against da burra cledd broo. An dan I turned t on page 94

4 matches

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
aetlan you bide IN Shetland / Burra / Fetlar / Yell, whaaras you on page 79

1 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
€™ dey spaek aboot ‘spaekin Burra’ or ‘spaekin Whaalsa’ o
n as faar as you laek - Aest Burra, Wast Burra, Sooth Wast Burra
, Wast Burra, Sooth Wast Burra, Nort Wast Burra, Hamnavoe. I
, Nort Wast Burra, Hamnavoe. I’m heard it sed
f - for example - you hae a Burra teacher spaekin Burra dialect
7 matches

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