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The word 'dearly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
dearlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.41413
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 9.8 3 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 4
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 dearly in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
I dearly love the lad next door. on page 38

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
Ah luv im dearly an although he widna, an cudn on page 7

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
A country dearly-kent, and yet sae fremd
1 matches

Hutchison, Pat Catty, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
but she’d loved her mither dearly an widna see her gyan intae a
1 matches

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn The McFables: Selected Aesop's Fables in Scots, (self-published 2015 ISBN: 978-1519739216) Central, poetry
"I wid dearly like tae hear ye sing on page 14

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
For me - altho gey dearly bocht.
1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
t is lost now, which those so dearly held.’
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
but Stuart's cause, is dearly bought,
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
he certain knowledge that his dearly depairtit Janet is aaready we on page 29

1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
That gart ye chairge dearly aa that bocht on page 11

1 matches

Scots Language Center Crackin aboot politics, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
on tae bring in laws that wad dearly stent inbrocht corn an allou
ory government that socht tae dearly stent fremmit corn, haud brei
2 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
he airts the wind can blaw, I dearly loe the west For there the bo(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
wrap their airms aroond us. I dearly wish ah wis wrapping ma airms(2020)

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