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The word 'burly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
burlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.276
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 25 2 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of burly in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
ary barged in, flanked by twa burly polismen. on page 46

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
lenging for a high cross wi a burly Gurkha, the defender’s heid
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
m football - n awe the hurly burly - cheery! (2020) twitter link

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
interrupts the hurly-burly on page 4

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
Ahlice, forgettin in th hurly burly hoo big she'd grown in th las on page 115
ainge (she kent) tae th hurly-burly o th busy ferm-yard-while th on page 124

2 matches

East Antrim (Larne)

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ts white mouldins naked again burly yellae waals. on page 48

1 matches

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