A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

lightly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 2 1.5 19.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences74 1 2 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of lightly in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
She brekks the silence, lightly at first, tentatively. She's on page 3

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Cathy's no prize. She got aff lightly compared tae Sandra and Maw f on page 6

1 matches

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
Your words loup lightly ow'er the Sark,
1 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
e top, and fingers pressin’ lightly against th’inside. Ah canna
1 matches

Doric

Strachan, Shane Beyond the Sea, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Doric, prose
ower tae his dad fa pats him lightly on the shooder. Ye look aroon
1 matches

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
each ither iver so lightly on page 30
the snow lightly faalan. on page 35

2 matches

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