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Use in varieties of Scots

briefly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words6.6 9.5 0 0 0 10.3 4.8
Number of occurrences2219 0 0 0 1 1
Number of authors14 12 1 1

Occurrences of briefly in Corpus

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Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
tain drugs have afforded very briefly in the past, lit the peek thr on page 3

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McDowell, Diane Drummond (Ma's Bairns), (Independently Published 2021 ISBN: 979-8592734588) Central, prose
oan foriver. She then thocht briefly aboot her guid-for-naethin ex on page 1

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
een it aw kickin oaff. He hud briefly mentioned suttin aboot this b on page 33

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McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ion o there bein twa Edwards (briefly) on the British throne, in 19 on page 43

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
, fiercely painted, flickered briefly in the flames, on page 40
Then briefly stopt, an turnt aroond. on page 140
Briefly, on page 147

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Allan, Alasdair Scots Language Policy, (Scots Parliament 2015) Central, government
This section briefly lists the key reasons why the on page 4

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Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
belang the Muslim tradeition. Briefly, back in 1802 the Czars gied on page 11

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Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
is mairriet gey young (an gey briefly) shortly afore the war, but t on page 133

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Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
that ah’m noo wan ay them; briefly unshackled fae the machine as
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Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
that wis broon breid. He had briefly thocht aboot eatin it but tha
ily oot o his path. He paused briefly tae drink frae a sma pool o s
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Whan the efternuin sin won briefly through the muntains, the wee
e opposite wey. Thair een met briefly. She feukit awa, confused, an
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Puchowski, James Frae Norrowa ower the faem, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
Campaign’s smeddum an left briefly for Norrowa while this fermen
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Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
approach the desk. The wuman briefly looks up while shiftin throug
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@IshbelMcF tweeted
oved the camera so youse cuid briefly see the midden that is the ba(2020) search twitter

Southern

Wilson, Rab Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Southern - Dumfries, poetry
Briefly, on page 221

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Ulster

Dickey, William Yarns 3 - Annual General Report, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2024) Ulster - Ballymena, prose
onie years ago he wus a pupil briefly at Lisnakirk Primary while hi
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