A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

burly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3 3 0 0 0 20.7 9.7
Number of occurrences106 0 0 0 2 2
Number of authors9 6 1 2

Occurrences of burly 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

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
tashy bouzouki player, a big burly fiddle player of farming stoc on page 3

1 matches

Purves, Jamie Lallans 102 - Aince, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, prose
r breeze, waggit in the hurly-burly, an sleepit anaith the Wunter on page 12

1 matches

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
ary barged in, flanked by twa burly polismen. on page 46

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
interrupts the hurly-burly on page 4

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
lenging for a high cross wi a burly Gurkha, the defender’s heid
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
m football - n awe the hurly burly - cheery! (2020) twitter link

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
Ahlice, forgettin in th hurly burly hoo big she'd grown in th las on page 115
ainge (she kent) tae th hurly-burly o th busy ferm-yard-while th on page 124

2 matches

Ulster

King, Angeline Dusty Bluebells Scots Edition, (Leschenault Press 2022 ISBN: 978-1922670540) Ulster - Larne, prose
ts white mouldins naked again burly yellae waals. on page 48

1 matches

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
pushed; Its liltin mode, Has burly tap men unco hushed, Till che on page 59

1 matches

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