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The word 'badly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
badlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.23024
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.7 5 4
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 2
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 4
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 28.1 2 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of badly in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
. No enough folk are affected badly enough. No everyone sees whit (2020) twitter link

Shetland

Ratter, Peter Da Perishin Nort, (Young Shetland Writer 2010) Shetland, prose
t, pantin. Da ship wis listin badly, and da 'Meerie Meggie' was c
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Cameron, Alan Lallans 90 - Drumtulloch, (Lallans Magazine 2017) Doric, prose
es oan her face, like a richt badly plooed field, or her black dr on page 84

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Hutchison, Pat The Three Cannels, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
. Some o his scars hid gotten badly infected. She’d kent fine s
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Angels Ten, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
erman flack ship and hid been badly damaged. His navigator hid be
id been killed and her father badly wounded but somehow he’d ma
2 matches

Aberdeen

Benzie, Lesley Fessen Reared, (Seahorse 2020 ISBN: 978-1916214538) Doric, poetry
by how badly managed an ill-considered it on page 32

1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
n and the club needs a reset, badly! I’ll be right in there anal (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
arts. The hinge style wis gey badly sklintert whaur it haed gotte on page 97

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Ozsome, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ion whimpered, shaking like a badly set jelly.
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
-natured. But O man, they are badly off for a language! I never s
ng them; for, O man, they are badly off for a language!"
2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
on a sunday fir ma fix - we badly need the amateur game back m8 (2020) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
She could still hurt me richt badly.' on page 195
it anither way, let's see how badly Miss Honey hus taucht ye the on page 210

2 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
k that, ah said. Aye well she badly needs a wash the wee mink, he on page 169

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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
s that maun be said anent hou badly the SNP did, fer losin Alex S on page 8

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
withoot oniebody gettin ower badly burnt an A spoonit it oot ont on page 73

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Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Wee Roge Boobs, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
to protect her from landin’ badly but ma right haun ended up oa
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“Some o the patients react badly to strange voices,” she whu
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
g time oan her birthday once, badly. She grows Interestit, I thin on page 3

1 matches

Ayrshire

Meikle, William Overheard in a Cemetery, (ABCTales.com 2004) Central - Ayrshire, prose
' us - but we didnae dae too badly - first John then Jimmy. The
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
sae alane. They wantit awfie badly tae bide wi this kind and bly on page 161

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Perrie, Walter Lallans 73 - The Tod an the Stoat, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
the truth aft-times is badly served on page 52

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@Chazzbat tweeted
rry Ah hope she's no hurt too badly xx(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
a teacher freens are sufferin badly wae stress a(2021)

South East (Borders)

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
o an agin telt hersel off sae badly as tae mak hersel greet; an y on page 14

1 matches

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
l o' Experts thon model bes a badly flawed, reductionist an' unhe on page 15

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@OrangRuth tweeted
ace. Thon hair needs peroxide badly...and a trip to the Sunbeds w(2018)

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