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Use in varieties of Scots

bertie Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words9 3 0 49.7 81.4 31 4.4
Number of occurrences296 0 5 14 3 1
Number of authors9 4 1 2 1 1

Occurrences of bertie in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
boay fae the sweetie advert, Bertie Bassett. You']] find aw soart on page 124

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Bertie unclasps ma hauns and reaches on page 48
hip that gat launched by King Bertie, then starrin in a picture co on page 76

2 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
the nose. That wis the end o Bertie’s guid luiks (his by name w
ba tae each ither (even when Bertie wis better placed tae score).
2 matches

@_Erinboyle_ tweeted
Bawlin my eyes at Bertie?? https://t.co/I1vexh5Xl5 (2019) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Big Bertie and his peedie wife were haea on page 56
There wis me and Bertie and Gordon, three birkies, on on page 61
bragged up a brave boy caa'd Bertie, wha came tae the kirk last n on page 62

5 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
ir settled eftir a cup a tae, Bertie wis sayin da lifeboat wis bee on page 33
kind a year, dat first year. Bertie cam hame fae da whalin, he wi on page 72
da place sozzled in booze. My Bertie gude tae da whalin, an winter on page 73
be him! I coodna wait ta tell Bertie. 'Du doesna seem surprised,' on page 74
"So dat's why Bertie caas your bathroom da police on page 75

13 matches

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: Da nicht afore da Trowie Show, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
asina has helped Vaila win da Bertie Deyell Memorial Cup for diale
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
Wulson hed ae callant ca’d Bertie, gif ma mynd sers mei richt;
, gif ma mynd sers mei richt; Bertie’s ferst job wis i the gaird
yonner. The laist tyme A saw Bertie, ay, mebbies 40 ‘ear syne;
3 matches

Ulster

@OrangRuth tweeted
Thon Bertie Ahern is a disgrace. One shou(2019) search twitter