A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

purely Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 6.1 4.5 0 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1712 3 0 1 1 0
Number of authors16 11 3 1 1

Occurrences of purely in Corpus

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Central

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
or flash, it's purely on page 61

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Clark, Thomas Wha's Like Us?, (Bella Caledonia 2017) Central - Bellshill, blog
no, is held up bi MPs wha ran purely on the basis o keepin the UK
did sae agin ithers that ran purely on the basis o splittin it up
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Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ntastic. If ah did, it’d be purely tae annoy McDade an given he
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Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
n oppressed nation simply and purely because we dinna control wur
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“Spirits,” she sayed, “purely medicinal.” She wis a wee b
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McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
On a purely unrelatit note, here are sum
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Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
hese concerns are, of course, purely hypotheticals. It’ll jist b
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@alistairdunn tweeted
board this plane on thursday. purely because it'll stop shannon ni(2015) search twitter

@jack_capener tweeted
86 @Bob55492332 An example of purely "broad" Scots speech: Aye, yo(2018) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
wisnae political. But it's no purely political. Ah wis brocht up t(2020) search twitter

@ThonJacobite tweeted
wallydooncally Ma comment wis purely aboot ma ain lack o patience (2020) search twitter

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ty taste in the moo. Bit it's purely a buzness decision. Fit wi th on page 10

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Hutchison, Pat Mrs Clushet o Faaldydykes, (McStorytellers.com 2018) Doric - Banffshire, prose
e pinched the brig o his nose purely for effect and in a tone o do
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@beast_afc tweeted
Mikey_Cumming @DiscussDandies Purely meanen making it we us. Wid l(2020) search twitter

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
o anidder language. Hit’s a purely relative term, at onnly comes
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Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
entire books in fact) are set purely here. Baith in English but wi(2020) search twitter