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Use in varieties of Scots

bailie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 1.5 7.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences83 5 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 3 2

Occurrences of bailie in Corpus

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Central

Forde, Iain W D Traisur Insch (excerpt), (Fons Scotiae 2008) Central, prose
m no a doctour anerlie; A'm a bailie; an gif A kep a braith o comp on page 9

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 119, (self-published 2003) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
wis her first offence an the bailie spiert, "Whit tempted ye tae
1 matches

Facebook link (Changed Times Historical Novel By Ethyl Smith 2022) Central
i this they went tae the Toun Bailie’s hoose an forced him tae h

Doric

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
| wis bailie at Mains O'Aswanley on page 14

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
Dod Mathieson, Steenhillock's bailie hard at his dowp. They war ca
winter, an muckit oot bi the bailie as pairt o his darg...bit lik
ge, winnerin fit hid taen his bailie's loon tae dae sic a thing ta
e ferm, or bedd nearhaun..the bailie, Will Gilchrist cycled doon t
4 matches

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