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The word 'sly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
slyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.71510
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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)
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sly in Corpus

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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

Mid Northern A

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

General Northern

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

(South) East Central

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

Glasgow

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

General Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
hen nor the hostelrie oan the sly. Sae the brithers gied pilgri on page 11
ging intae the forest oan the sly, an bigg a knorr, braid in th on page 14

3 matches

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Sleekit, cruel and sly on page 42

1 matches

South West (Galloway)

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

General Ulster

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