Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

importantly	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	6.2	5.7	9	0	0	10.3	8.9
Number of occurrences	20	11	6	0	0	1	2
Number of authors	16	9	4			1	2

Occurrences of importantly in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Mikey nobody remembers the birdman - It's Ladle, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
bit ae redemption. And maire importantly, the chance tae git it right on page 35

1 matches

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
herd an cairrier, an - maist importantly - in furtherin the cause o t on page 26

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
honest hard graft. And maire importantly, they goat pleasure fae takin on page 87
ars aulder than us, and maire importantly, a loat bigger than us. Jist on page 199

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ves us weel the day, an maist importantly wi the Brexit bourach loomin, on page 52

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
l then, Wonka,' he said awfie importantly, takkin oot a wallet fu o mon on page 127

1 matches

Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
Maist importantly, we maun unnerstaun that whit
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
ed by linguists an, much mair importantly, it’s spoken by maist o the
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
ol though... :) Anyhoos, more importantly, I'm gonna have tae get some (2023) twitter link

@weenell3 tweeted
the dampness at bad and more importantly tae dry the washing ?? (2022) twitter link
@awsumedevil Morning mair importantly when's my interview back on t (2022) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
really ken onybody? An, mair importantly, foo weel div ony o's ivver r on page 80

1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
for the lay reader and, maist importantly, it maks the reader realise i on page 126

1 matches

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric, prose
for the lay reader and, maist importantly, it maks the reader realise i
1 matches

Leslie, Deborah Bittie aboot oor Doric dialect, (Doric Future 2020) Doric - Inverurie, blog
espectit, validatit an, maist importantly, spoken. A language aat’s i
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
se, far she could go and mair importantly for her, far she couldna go.
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
em well, organise them - but importantly, get them believing, give the (2022) twitter link

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
lyrical talent past and most importantly present @WigtownBookFest @The(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
urns fae progressin' an, mair importantly, on page 38

1 matches

@the_gellick tweeted
arrierPhil @BelfastBooks Mair importantly - hoo mony points dae tha Be (2019) twitter link