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The word 'sairiously'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
sairiouslyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.584
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 1
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
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of sairiously in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
seediration, "his pey packit. Sairiously, though, life jist cudna bi b on page 14

1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric - Inverurie, prose
"Ye canna sairiously expeck ma te pey oot ilky mon on page 12
h expeck. Same's aabody else. Sairiously, though, Ah think is loon sai on page 15

2 matches

General Northern

Young, Morna The Twa Chrisses, (Scots Language Center 2021) Doric, prose
nd mebbe they’d tak it mare sairiously, syne aa the schuil buiks we
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
fowk wisna takin the maitter sairiously an wis juist ettlin tae pit h
1 matches

General Central

Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
w o the Labour Perty. Sae foo sairiously can we tak Murphy at his wurd
1 matches

Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
s as something no tae be taen sairiously. It is the language o the une
Scots, the news wadna be taen sairiously as it wad be seen tae be spok
2 matches

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