A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'mainly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mainlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.54028
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 11.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 5
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 17.9 7 5
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 106.2 10 2
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.9 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 7
SEA - South East (Borders)
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of mainly in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
rang wi her, bit its steminly mainly malnutrition." on page 43

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@tattooedselkie tweeted
tae start tweetin in dialect, mainly becis I saa the abuse they we(2021)

Mid Northern A

Elphinstone Institute Aiberdeenshire Cooncil – Scots Leid Guidelines, (Aberdeenshire Council 2017) Doric, government
ken in the hame, the wey it's mainly eesed by mony fowk eynoo. Aib
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Will virus crisis mean a fresh stairt for Scots produce?, (The National 2020) Doric, newspaper
or diets are gaun tae consist mainly o Scots produce.
1 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
In Sharnie-Loss, thanks mainly tae Hamish Gloag, opinion bec on page 118

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@72redz1903 tweeted
makes perfect sense tae him, mainly because it hits all the clima (2022) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
panel jist leaking in corners mainly(2020)

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
study o Scots in academia is mainly aboot studyin the language in(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Team_s @GaryLineker He spicks mainly shite nae sure aboot doric th(2018)

(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
ng and awa wi a stream that's mainly watter. She hes a weel-kennt on page 97

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Farrow, Kenneth D. Lallans 74 - Editorial, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
rit til in this wark is Poems Mainly from the East Neuk, Fife (Akr
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
In Scots, this means mainly wirds taen fae French or the
hae their ain orthographies (mainly Insular Scots, eg Shetlandic)
hey wis wantin fae the beuks, mainly ablo the "Fause" heid. Clessi
3 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
aica, an the broadsheets will mainly eschew it for Standard Englis
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 176, (self-published 2008) Central - Musselburgh, newspaper
s hinnermaist wark is written mainly in the Gleswegian vyce. This
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West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
ein’ somehing pointless bit mainly huvin a laugh wi Rab whae wis
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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
tae wark freelance fer them, mainly on the wireless, an cin mind on page 47
o an the television, This wis mainly doon tae the fack that a lot on page 48
e us decrees - but hey, that mainly leads tae a war or twa, an ma on page 114

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McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
longin fer fresh meat an this mainly meant seal meat. Nou seals we on page 37
thon day were near aw Scots, mainly fae Dundee an Aiberdeen. Norm on page 48
e comments fae the ither lot, mainly Glaswegians an Liverpudlians, on page 50
up ae day fer lunch - o the mainly liquid variety - at the Wig on page 75
wa or even three gamekeepers, mainly fit, strang men theirsels, th on page 83
Also on pages 124
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@d_anderson878 tweeted
r wi some o the non-spikkers (mainly first gen non-spikkers, in my(2020)

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
t onywey. He held ontae thaim mainly as a sense-o-humour test for
1 matches

Glasgow

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
n, the dialect ae Scots spoke mainly in Glesea an the surroondin c on page v

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Ayrshire

Macdonald, Amy Evelynn and Peter, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Ayr, prose
patients are. The facility is mainly for people wi Alzheimer’s,
1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
Scots Style Sheet, efforts - mainly be the Scots Language Society on page 56

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Ahmad, Nyla How We Celebrate – scrievin prompt, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
e a moment that wis important mainly tae yersel, like a weddin, or
1 matches

Smirnov, Kuzma , (Facebook 2015) Central, prose
c an Norse. The nou, U. an B. mainly haes anely pronoonciation an
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@DABArbuckle tweeted
ich i wis brocht up tae yase. Mainly because THEY didnae unnerstau(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
that's disingenuous, they're mainly disinterested or inculcated i (2022) twitter link
ign to show the world (the UN mainly) how we're being held against (2022) twitter link

@LairnScots tweeted
hae The Kist - Scots poetry, mainly fir bairns, wi audio versions (2019) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ich i wis brocht up tae yase. Mainly because THEY didnae unnerstau(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
th dialect is still aboot but mainly in the auld mens' pubs and sh(2020)