A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

aaready Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words17.4 19.1 16 0 11.6 54.7 4.4
Number of occurrences5436 10 0 2 5 1
Number of authors21 14 2 2 2 1

Occurrences of aaready in Corpus

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Central

McGregor, Iain Lallans 85 - Archie Dodds, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
, A see yin o the jeests haes aaready fawn doon peenin Archie's air on page 20

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Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
, an gaun her dinger. She had aaready heard her ery oot for three o on page 44

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Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e. A wheen o the pickets were aaready outlawed hill-men wi a price on page 28
his dearly depairtit Janet is aaready welcomed within the waas o th on page 29
He had gairded ane aaready, a smaa getherin deep in the on page 34
uiry, John jaloused that they aaready kent faur mair nor they let o on page 45
dnae let on that the grun wis aaready wadset for twinty year on the on page 80

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Docherty, John F. Lallans 81 - Lang Summer Days, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
a demob suit, it's oot o date aaready!' he jokes an he's laughin aw on page 76

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
pluttered. "I've fower bairns aaready an no needin ony mair." on page 38
er some sweeties, which she's aaready swalleyed. An the man in the on page 43
ae ony good. Rigor mortis has aaready set in. It's deid, I'm tellin on page 60
"That's aaricht. Robert aaready telt on me. Onywye, I didnae on page 74

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Purdie, David C. Lallans 58 - The Dumb Jyner, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ert, he's settin up the front aaready sae we'll stert awa." on page 65

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Begg, James A. Lallans 68 - 1841 – The Plouman, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
"An I've asked ye aaready... Whit age are ye?" Christia on page 17

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Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 67 - Clash fae Cauld Hill, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
le feck o them haed gaen ower aaready. on page 39

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Adamson, Donald Bield, (Tapsalteerie 2021) Central - Dumfries, poetry
A can aaready hear it on page 15

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Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
Alfounder o the aaready flourishin faimly builder and on page 72

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Hershaw, William Lallans 59 - A Mass In Scots For Saint Andrae, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
at haes taen the gate aaready tae yer hoose on page 97

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Law, John Lallans 56 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
din read; Ann Wegmüller haes aaready gien guid advice on airts ti on page 4

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
kind-of-a staundardisation at aaready existit (fameiliar tae aa i t on page 56

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Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
s orthography, the principles aaready bein kent fae the English.
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Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
iblins the Latinate lexis wis aaready pairt o (Northren) Middle Eng
, and they uphaud what we’v aaready notit abuin. And whaur a Lati
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Fleemin, Sandy Lallans 59 - Bellin the Cat, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Central - Ormiston, prose
up the peth tae whaur the’r aaready sic a fire in the lobby she c
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
is bed, whaur Mrs Cameron wis aaready snorin awa.
o raised platform, Major wis aaready sattelt on his bed o strae, u
My feres, ye will hae heard aaready aboot yon unco dream I haed l
E’en the maist glaikit haed aaready uptaen the tuin and a wheen w
As tae the pigs, they could aaready read and write brawly. The du
6 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
he sayed. “The Chinese hiv aaready fund whitever remains.”
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Heather, Alistair Tartan Tourism nae mair, (The Herald 2018) Central, newspaper
This new body o wark is aaready haein echoes aroon Scotland.
ld gie succour tae evolutions aaready stertit in ither neuks, an ma
2 matches

Begg, James A. Lallans 74 - The Killie Fleshers - 1786, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
u for ower sax years, she had aaready borne him three wee dochters,
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Doric

Strachan, Shane The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - An Eggs-traordinar Egg, (Itchy Coo 2020) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
orra deukie wis a fair size ~ aaready! Much bigger and mair aakward on page 19

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Uri, Antonia The birds an the bees, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
airticle. If ye hinna seen it aaready, ah strangly advise ye tae, a
owen up in the kintra, ah wis aaready weel awaur that leukin efter
2 matches

Strachan, Shane Hoast, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric, prose
nny for a wik noo and she’s aaready gien ma a curn o reasons tae
three at her hoose, I’d wis aaready sickent wi it, especially the
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Uri, Antonia Will virus crisis mean a fresh stairt for Scots produce?, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
e made or grown somewey else. Aaready, for wiks, the shelves hiv be
broad an the panic buyers hiv aaready bocht aathin there is tae be
mair tae worry aboot than we aaready hiv. If it daes get tae the p
gs. First an formaist, we are aaready realisin foo muckle we human
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Uri, Antonia Flooery achievement for the Scots Government, (The National 2019) Doric, newspaper
weel as the poppies an dasies aaready thrivin. In particular, it wa
1 matches

Shetland

Nicholson, Hannah Samhain - Usher in the Dark - Minni-Babbi, (Leopard Arts 2021) Shetland, prose
door up. Da curse wis wirkin aaready. I flung up da door fully an
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@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
@SamMGreer Im aaready there (2020) twitter link

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
urnett16 The SQA are ontae it aaready Alan, believe me, it's bein b(2020) search twitter
readin it an fair enjoyin it aaready ??(2020) search twitter
ib tae the new techno gubbins aaready ??(2020) search twitter

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
@Sandancer1977 a knaa aaready! If there is Monarchy system (2020) search twitter
ain643 Dinnae dae thon! He is aaready oan the heap!(2020) search twitter

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
UlsterScots are "freestaunin" aaready: hooaniver here's what thon # (2014) twitter link