A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

sly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 2.7 6.4 9.9 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences115 4 1 0 0 1
Number of authors8 3 3 1 1

Occurrences of sly in Corpus

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Central

Haddow, Kris nobody remembers the birdman - The Incomer, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
marked ye oot fae the get-go. Sly glances passed atween folk. S on page 76

1 matches

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
Sly auld reynard did appear. on page 26
There wis the sly auld Tortoise, too. on page 29

2 matches

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
fuckin piranhas ur flingin in sly punches an kicks though as ah
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
oan it, ah relent, orderin a sly dram ay Macallan fur the road
1 matches

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Ah teen a sly keek it ma waatch - it wis j on page 7
enu, waatchin es Sandy teen a sly keek it the prices oan the wi on page 34

2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
sneak aff tae see her on the sly, kennin fine in his hairt o h
1 matches

@cligeey tweeted
Sly afters fae Broon disna work w(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Butler, Vera Gallows Ha - Maggie o Quoys and Bessie o Gyre , (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
t trust her around Davie. The sly luks. Pitten me doon at any o on page 21

1 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
e keek doon their lugs on the sly! https://t.co/K1kuZyK4E1 (2017) twitter link