A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

instantly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words10.1 11.1 6 9.9 5.8 41.3 4.4
Number of occurrences3322 4 1 1 4 1
Number of authors18 11 3 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of instantly in Corpus

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Central

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
voice, an the three gairdners instantly Jumped up, an stairtit bowin on page 80

1 matches

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
hed askin the question ah wis instantly up oot ma seat. And no jist a on page 35

1 matches

Beekman, Tony Lallans 85 - The Belt, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
he mood o the pupils switched instantly tae wan o formal silence. Mr. on page 39

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
kwardly, intimidated, I flush instantly, takin painful half breaths w on page 3

3 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ection ae whoever said it. Ah instantly find massel practically nose on page 51
sion ae sheer panic which wis instantly splattered acroass her beauti on page 67
oon cloacks the wee fella and instantly she's aw oor him. He's lovin on page 154
cheap laugh at ma expense. Ah instantly felt obliged tae share the ex on page 166
Instantly ah rise fae ma seat again. Sp on page 174
Also on pages 179, 184
7 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
nald takes ma haun, warmin it instantly. He's gat thick, black, curly on page xii

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
apped his haun tae his sword. Instantly aw the Amazon warriors had th on page 39
p in Hercules's drouthie gub. Instantly the strength came skitin back on page 43

2 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 73 - Historical Lexicography and the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to 1700, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
generatit concordance, wi can instantly see the smaaest differences i on page 15

1 matches

Bremner, Stewart Haud Yer Wheesht?, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
it, hoo many kintras hae such instantly-recognisable artefacts? It's
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
The interior ay the close instantly lets ye know yer in a mare af
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
ds tae summon her attendants. Instantly, a hunner woodnymphs an seany
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
by a fretful lookin Bruce who instantly cloacks the test tube gripped
1 matches

Doric

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
yer airms instantly aroon ma neck on page 30

1 matches

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
Queen!", an e three gardeners instantly threw themselves flat on thei on page 75
imed, turnan till e jury, who instantly made a memorandum oe fact. on page 107

2 matches

Devlin, Edwin The School Dentist 1969, (Facebook 2020) Doric, prose
up aff the chair only tae be instantly arrested and held doon by the
1 matches

Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
ir-conditioned factory floor. Instantly, Ah’m struck by the impecca
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
Da doctor said he wid a deeid instantly. Ah'm blyde he didna hae ta f on page 3

1 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ays! If sae, a could kill her instantly... that’s scary! T(2020) search twitter
in lounge and got rid of that instantly. whacked it oot and ordered P(2020) search twitter
that cos one of ma mates died instantly fae a muckle cardiac arrest, (2020) search twitter
ma ability tae have 5 senses instantly... https://t.co/6j4TJ1ytgT(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
imt, turnin tae the jury, wha instantly made a memorundun o the fect. on page 111

1 matches

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