A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'historically'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
historicallyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus51612
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 17.4 3 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 14.1 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of historically in Corpus

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Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
isna richt linguistically or historically: Shaetlan is nae mair a diale on page 12
wrang baith linguistically an historically. on page 31
linguistically or historically. on page 59

3 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
fair point and explains why, historically, there’s nae twa fitba teams (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
. etc. juist because they war historically yaised in the English languag
1 matches

West Central

Hodgart, John A Catalogue o Sair Neglect, (Bella Calledonia 2016) Central - North Ayrshire, blog
fower essays, spells oot why historically the fecht tae include Scottis
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
tuation in Scotland is, baith historically an the-day. on page 83

1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
it yin hud, the other wanted. Historically though, peace wiz scarcely br
1 matches

General Central

Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
ty ony human society groondit historically in a particular territoral sp on page 20
e richt tae uise the language historically spoken in a territor, baith o on page 21

2 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
Scotland hae traditionally an historically been regairdit as the Scottis
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
‘aforesyne’ (before) and, historically, ‘sinsyne’ (‘since that
e mair authentic Scots, baith historically (reflectin hoo Scots has fur
2 matches

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
those issues, tis irrelevant. Historically, tis gang oan and oan ‘til s (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
ng about Scots as a language, historically, orthographically and linguis(2020)

General Ulster

Crozier, Ian Recomendations fer an Ulster-Scots plen fer oor leid, heirskeip an’ culture, (communities-ni.gov.uk 2022) Ulster, government
ch potential fer mair. Thurd, historically the on page 40

1 matches

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