A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'purely'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
purelyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.21716
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 2
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 4.6 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 purely in Corpus

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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
1 matches

Mid Northern A

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

1 matches

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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General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
Mikey_Cumming @DiscussDandies Purely meanen making it we us. Wid l(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
hese concerns are, of course, purely hypotheticals. It’ll jist b
1 matches

West Central

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
2 matches

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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Dundee

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

1 matches

Edinburgh

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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Glasgow

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
1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
On a purely unrelatit note, here are sum
1 matches

@alistairdunn tweeted
board this plane on thursday. purely because it'll stop shannon ni(2015)

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

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

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

South West (Galloway)

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