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The word 'gully'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
gullyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.1179
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 4
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 107.1 3 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of gully in Corpus

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Orkney

Towrie, David Wirkin' the Tang - a dialect tale, (Orkneyjar 2010) Orkney, prose
an than doon in the ebb wae a gully or sumin o' that kind tae cut
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
. An forbye, there's a muckle gully atween hiz; naebody fae oor s on page 108

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
mak oot some sinister-lookin gully, wi ootcrops o rock, trees wh on page 77

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
s vyce mutit. He brocht oot a gully, an they hackit the fabric fr
an searched him. They got his gully, bit that wis aa.
he larry. Iskander produced a gully an stertit tae cut it up.
3 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
ae slairit it on wi the breid-gully." on page 44

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
slauchterin beasts, drew his gully quick across her craig an pit on page 53

1 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Geordie's Mingin Medicine, (Itchy Coo 2007 ISBN: 978-1845021603) Central, weans
if somebody wis shairpenin a gully on a grindstane inside its be on page 82

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
at the ae time. 'Jist fetch a gully ... Ah dinnae waant tae ken w on page 17

3 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
rs tae suffer a slauchterhous gully across their craigs, wi-oot b
1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
r consteetuent mean ae drain, gully or a sewer. I mean ae cundie,(2020)

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An Abraham tha gully grips, on page 33
A quare fella, cute as a gully, a heid as fou on page 49
His gully scorin snicks in tha wood for on page 50

3 matches

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