A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'anyways'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
anywaysOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7124
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 13.8 3 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 32.6 6 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 anyways in Corpus

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Orkney

Garson, Sheila Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
be at home so see and not be anyways annoyed if I don't get writin on page 37

1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
™ they’ll a’ be prayin’ anyways, singin’ an’ that sae itâ
1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
e’ve wur ain parliament noo anyways, an’ a’ the talks o’ In
na he’s Fab Bob’ debate. Anyways, he’s the boss an’ it wis
2 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
, you! Aye, they wur bang oot anyways!' on page 29
alm doon, fuck. Am no worried anyways, troops! Know wit Amean?' A s on page 30
'Fuck them anyways, Azzy boy. Any shite starts n on page 33
'Right, Am away oot anyways!' on page 37
i dain in there wae that cunt anyways?' on page 39

6 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
Guidbye twitter for the nicht anyways! Nicht nicht awe! X http://t.(2015)
ts nae Scotland??Or is it!??. Anyways happy weekend tae you, yir wi(2015)