A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

ostensibly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences43 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of ostensibly in Corpus

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Central

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
a sais, starin intae ma eyes, ostensibly tae ease ma discomfort but ma
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Guru an Zander, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
wae the middle classes, they ostensibly, lack the necessary self-awar
1 matches

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Ostensibly I'm speaking in defence of we
1 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
urk, sae Yid wis left liggin, ostensibly sleepin on the settle, wi
1 matches

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