folly | Corpus occurrences | Central | Doric / Northern | Orkney | Shetland | Southern | Ulster | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Occurences normalised per million words | 5.2 | 5.5 | 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.3 | |
Number of occurrences | 17 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
Number of authors | 15 | 9 | 3 | 3 |
Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"See noo yer folly, fellow citizens, on page 27
1 matches
Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
That tumbled folly's beckoning Yet brambles obsc on page 63
1 matches
Ross, Derek Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
mair o a folly than a monument. on page 191
1 matches
McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
mitage up at Dunkeld when yon folly wis first pit up. The Hermita on page 86
1 matches
Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
e video so ah couldnae really folly it. Afterwards the teacher as on page 93
nae think ae anythin else tae folly it up wi but it soundet good on page 169
2 matches
Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
clear thay the main theme is folly as opposed tae guid sense in on page 110
in human folly, cannae be sneddit oot aatheg on page 119
2 matches
McPartlin, John Lallans 76 - The Gied Ower Gairden, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Central, poetry
as folly pleesurin a canty maister.
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@raiphsays tweeted
pal wan, Perconte, an he wid folly me aboot!(2020) search twitter
Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
latit, until he hid amassed a folly in his back gairden thit wis
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@cligeey tweeted
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Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
kin, but nae result seemt tae folly, except a weethin shakin aman on page 51
1 matches
Campbell, Robert Lock Doon Poyams, (Independently 2021 ISBN: 979-8742155812) Ulster, poetry
Rejoice this folly wus na yer eind!" on page 50
1 matches