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The word 'flurry'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
flurryOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus51612
ORK - Orkney 19.9 2 2
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 13.3 3 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
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 flurry in Corpus

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Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The flurry o excitement meed me feel a l on page 7

1 matches

Butler, Vera Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
I reach doon tae grab you, a flurry o faethers on page 144

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
d Alice, quite forgettan in e flurry o e meenad how beeg she hed g on page 112

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
argiement wis firgotten in a flurry o scone spreadin an tay steer on page 71

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
n the entertainment cam on: a flurry o furlin folk duncers aat war on page 15
irns tummlin in ahin her in a flurry o skweel bugs an jaickets. on page 35

2 matches

General Northern

Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
An noo an again ere's a flurry o sna.
Wi a flurry o sna winter his it's say.
Every noo an again ere's a flurry o sna,
3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ess o Brodgar set aff a richt flurry o acteevity in social media. on page 99

1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
outit Alice, forgettin in the flurry ae the moment how big she'd g on page 114

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Park trife, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
s howlin doon the street an a flurry ay snow swarms the place, pep
1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
Scots hid a great an serious flurry in the late 1920s, bit in the on page 37

1 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
A snaw flake, then a flurry on page 15

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Drosten, John Lallans 67 - Fower Poems bi John Drosten, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
afore the Derbie stert, sic a flurry on page 135

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
Alice, quite furgittin in the flurry o the moment hoo big shae had on page 116

1 matches

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