A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'frequently'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
frequentlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.588
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 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of frequently in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Tae thee, or no tae thee?, (Brisk Northerly 2020) Orkney, blog
tray and Papay and also, less frequently these days, in the West Mainl
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 108, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
cdote, - as lang's they keep frequently cawin on the servant lad or l
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Edinburgh

Smith, Jamie Effeirin tae the formal: Laitinate lendwirds in Scots, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
from Latin was in Older Scots frequently carried out independently of
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General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
up heels ower hurdies. We noo frequently see solecisms lik the ane on on page 56

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
e forsaken their ain leid. We frequently lament that mony scuils daes
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
ality and informality, and is frequently heard in formal settins, sic
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@fairpechtoot tweeted
@d_anderson878 Yaised frequently tae ma weans, 'Whit huv ye do(2017)

East Antrim (Larne)

@Angelinekking tweeted
quite onomatopoeic. I used it frequently. It's in this poem: "hear the(2020)