A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'officially'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
officiallyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.41111
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
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 officially 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.

Shetland

Watt, Valerie Tochts fae Tushie Truncherface: A Hamefarin hero, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
it awa wi takin dem by force. Officially da government said dey wir en
1 matches

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
er Sunday and that means it's officially Skekler/Grølek season in She(2020)

General Northern

@sovereigndaisy tweeted
@ScottishJill Aye. I’m officially in Huchter Teuchter Fisher la(2019)

@Franwella tweeted
ply fae an ITN reporter. I am officially chuffed tae feck :-)(2012)

(South) East Central

McAlpine, Joan Meeting of the Parliament, (The Scottish Parliament 2019) Central, government
up tae where it should be: an officially recognised national language.
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Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 142, (self-published 2005) Central, newspaper
that only juist becam officially French in 1860, is noo France
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
ted that it would be guid tae officially recognise this while he wis s
1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas Diary o a Wimpy Wean, (Itchy Coo 2018 ISBN: 978-1785302145) Central, weans
Officially, Rowley's ma best mate, but a on page 17

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Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
Scots langage policy thit wis officially pitten forret in twinty-fifte
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@bigandymccoll tweeted
for the royal planting. They (officially!!) cannae guarantee public or (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
'Officially' we hae nae need on page 12

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