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Use in varieties of Scots

burdies Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.7 3.5 1.5 0 0 0 3.9
Number of occurrences97 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors8 6 1 1

Occurrences of burdies in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
thaim-aa kin o wee burdies an beasts, as weel as the hal on page 44

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
oucer tunes mind me o the wee burdies I see here, the speugs an stu on page 21

1 matches

Urquhart, Andrew Lallans 104 - Queen a Clatty Pats, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, poetry
like wee bonnie burdies dabblin at hir hair. on page 100

1 matches

MacKenzie, Douglas Eemis Stane 1 - Puir Finch, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
While I for hours the burdies stalk on page 13

1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
ophanes, The Puddocks and The Burdies, first perform’t in the 195
emmit text. The Chorus in The Burdies patters oot a universal mane:
2 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Dùn Èideann, (The Scores 2020) Central, prose
Lawn,’ he declared tae the burdies.
1 matches

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
e o the thunner-birds, muckle burdies wi human physogs like the Skr
1 matches

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
Wae photies o burdies an bees, on page 35

1 matches

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