A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'surprisingly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
surprisinglyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.586
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of surprisingly in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ll though this cunt seems tae surprisingly on page 108
phone starts ringin again but surprisingly, this time, it's Dougie. Ah h on page 175

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Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ter this Victorian timepiece. Surprisingly, the reception area is desert
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
Disco, surprisingly, feels as if he'll be the eas on page 14

1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
a throat tichtens, but ah’m surprisingly calm. Ma lungs look normal en
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General Central

@alistairdunn tweeted
been a surprisingly quick day, two hours tae go(2013)

@jax6754 tweeted
ial Happy Weekend Olly! Sun's surprisingly oot here in Scotland! Come an(2015)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
, N. Ireland and even Norway, surprisingly, we share similar traits... h(2020)