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 words2.2 2.1 0 0 0 20.7 4.4
Number of occurrences74 0 0 0 2 1
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of burly in Corpus

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Central

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
1 matches

@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

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