A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

figuratively Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.1 3.5 0 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences77 0 0 0 0 0
Number of authors2 2

Occurrences of figuratively in Corpus

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
odds atween "literally" and "figuratively". If somethin happens literal on page 68
ituation like theirs, ye ken, figuratively escapin wisnae really enough, on page 69
ou're no gonnae mairry Violet figuratively - ye're gonnae mairry her li on page 97

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SSalyers2 rallies the troops (figuratively, obvs). (2022) twitter link

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