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Use in varieties of Scots

bur Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 2 1.5 0 5.8 10.3 8.9
Number of occurrences94 1 0 1 1 2
Number of authors9 4 1 1 1 2

Occurrences of bur in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Rennie, Susan The Wee Prince, (Edition Lintenfass 2017 ISBN: 978-3946190592) Central, prose
hemsels intae express trains, bur they dinna ken whit they are on page 80

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
. She wis a star in some ways,bur ma memory's away. on page 115

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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
uncin the names literally as (Bur-ness). This is wrang an wad m
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@jax6754 tweeted
an stones may break our bones bur names will never hurt us! xxx(2014) search twitter

Doric

Storrie Lewis, Jean Lallans 71 - Snuffy, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Doric, prose
them looked for monie a day, bur haed nae luck. Snuffy wis nev
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
"Bur I..." on page 47

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Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
e could, as th bilin day made bur feel awfy sleepy an daft), wh on page 7

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Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
a Green, but a chill hastened bur feet as she imaigined him sto on page 25

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Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
Bur then yin day he wus fun oor on page 46

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