A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'otherwise'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
otherwiseOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41813
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 140.7 4 1
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 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 20.5 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 2
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 otherwise in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
s dried before the bus comes, otherwise God knows what rumours will b on page 21

1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
tman becase he wis in livery: otherwise, Judgan by his face only, she on page 53
ver imagine yersel no till be otherwise than what id micht appear til on page 88

4 matches

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
wis alarmed tae discover her otherwise placid Shitsu hid begun barki on page 118

1 matches

@_DawnLeslie tweeted
tae ye! Ah hope ye get a win, otherwise it could be a lang crunk hame(2020)

(South) East Central

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
ust huv been up at the church otherwise she'd huv been oot afore this on page 7

1 matches

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
an apprenticeship, modern or otherwise. Come eighteen ah wis stuck i
1 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
otherwise it's fuckin useless. on page 114

1 matches

Glasgow

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
ells. People need shells tae. Otherwise on page 1

1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
an bubbles that disturbed the otherwise calm veneer ay the lochan, Mc
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ny boy. Widnae huv invited ye otherwise. Ah’m no sure aboot that fr
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Arabian Monkfish (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
tigate the mundanity ay their otherwise woefully inadequate existence
1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
better up yir game tae though otherwise its just same old same old! x(2014)

South East (Borders)

The Westender Loupin Salmon, (The Hawick Paper 2007) Southern, newspaper
bottom. Hei was drookit, bit otherwise unhurt and abody hed a guid l
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Ronnie's Story, (words.krishaddow.com 2011) Central, prose
tear tracks streaked doon his otherwise filthy face. He still had his
1 matches

@StuartPoet tweeted
eat to get such great news in otherwise difficult times. Magic, gaun (2020) twitter link

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