A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

mostly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.7 3.1 7.5 29.8 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences156 5 3 1 0 0
Number of authors11 5 4 1 1

Occurrences of mostly in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
join us. These kinda cunts ir mostly harmless, but if they hud bee on page 12
t wae other young teams. They mostly move aboot the town freely. A on page 23

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McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
ions fur bein bad. But it was mostly fir skippin classes tae play
1 matches

Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
u’re going to have to drink mostly water from now on.”
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
r. He wis cute, richt enough, mostly black in colour wi a tan brei
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@ScottishLabour elc was aways mostly labour controlled brian - wa (2021) twitter link

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
i hearts. Next came e guests, mostly Kings an Queens, an amang the on page 76
"Pepper, mostly," sade e cook. on page 110

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Smith, Derek Northwords Now 43 - Derek Smith, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
stack the odds in my favour. Mostly. on page 18

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@Franwella tweeted
wn adult...well almost grown, mostly adult.....I will not tak lapt(2011) search twitter

@McGoo1888 tweeted
innocent..hahaha hardly...we mostly met up in Cranhill and were a (2021) twitter link

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
nd is below the horizon, it's mostly just the Hill groond we can s (2020) twitter link
refix in Orkney. I'm thinking mostly of older folk and the most co(2020) search twitter
y, and very hard to describe. Mostly I hear it in the word 'teu'= (2020) search twitter

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
ech and the printed words are mostly invisible.’ Ah, bit you see
1 matches

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