A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

perfectly Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.8 12.3 16.6 29.8 11.6 10.3 0
Number of occurrences4124 11 3 2 1 0
Number of authors26 14 7 2 2 1

Occurrences of perfectly in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
trainers aff his feet. He's a perfectly healthy cunt but he's git a t on page 7

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Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
oan nothin's wrang whin it's perfectly obvious somethin is. I wonder on page 1

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
'That's perfectly richt!' yowled Grannie Jockin on page 12
am, that yer darlin laddie is perfectly safe and weel.' on page 87
t!' said Violet. 'It's warkin perfectly weel! Och aye, whit braw soup on page 109

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Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
'Weel, whit for hae ye bent a perfectly guid yin?' spiered Heehaw. on page 27

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
Isla grins. She hus perfectly straight pearly whites after on page 7
a eyes. Ah imagine Disneyland perfectly. There's a giant rollercoaste on page 36
rror. Ma sponge curls hud set perfectly beneath ma hairnet, and ah pu on page 54
eated the steps he'd shown me perfectly in ma sig. nature kicten heel on page 58
t. Everyhin aboot hur face is perfectly proportioned. It's the one Br on page 91

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Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
for langenough. He is speakin perfectly literally: he griens gently e on page 72

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 81 - Chynge for chynge’s sake?, (Lallans Magazine 2012) Central, prose
dialectal variant there wi a perfectly rational parentage. Sae whit
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Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
or room is neat. Athin placed perfectly. Ma wardrobe i same, claiths
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Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ir’s long and broon, hingin perfectly in wee, delicately arranged,
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Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
s oan the gless like surface, perfectly still amongst the translucent
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ion is all on my Muse. It’s perfectly safe.” “Oh ... Well done,
don’t do that! I can manage perfectly well - now that I’ve found
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Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
a’ and ‘I’ve ran’ are perfectly braw Scottish Staunart Englis
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Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
rsonality. Before he lits oot perfectly crafted hoops in the air. Slo
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@billykayscot tweeted
Perfectly explicable mistake - she’s (2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@JackGilchrist__ these perfectly formed cheeks r tae die for b (2020) twitter link

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
nie wi i'microphone is spikin perfectly lood on page 145

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Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
But, noo at A'm perfectly sure A hev none, on page 44
two sides o id; an, as id wis perfectly roond, she found iss an awful on page 49
e went on. Her listeners were perfectly quiet till she got till e par on page 100

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Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ea. Beggerey confirmed it wis perfectly a’right as lang as nae a si
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Wilson, Katie Becus a hae a sister a hae a friend, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Buckie, prose
sna hink nithin of it. It’s perfectly fine in her world! Different
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Facebook link (Doric Scots Books an Poems 2022) Doric - Aberdeen
nnedy's in Merkland road, iye perfectly honed

McDonald, Charlie , (Facebook 2022) Doric - Aberdeen, poetry
nnedy's in Merkland road, iye perfectly honed
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@DoricPhrases tweeted
Eh! Ye mockit lot, rubbing a perfectly claw aipple on yer clarty cla(2018) search twitter

@72redz1903 tweeted
llacaledonia Fine for me - a perfectly lovely goal wid have wrongly (2022) twitter link
e with that approach which is perfectly acceptable, they will nae doo (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Cormack, Kevin Toonie Void, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
perfectly owerlappan himsael. on page 29

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Hall, Simon W. The Boy That Lived - Chapter Wan, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, prose
Mr Dursley, hooivver, haed a perfectly normal, cattie-face free morn
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Hall, Simon W. No the Six o Clock News, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Orkney, blog
o Scots. Welsh TV drama flits perfectly naturally atween subtitled We
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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
lin up again till dat hay wis perfectly dry, bit still smellin sweet, on page 8

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Sutherland, Hazel Biggin Da Dess, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
ady. Bent for'ard ower wi his perfectly balanced bundle.
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Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
But, noo that Ah'm perfectly share Ah hae nane, on page 45

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