A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

virtually Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 4.5 1.5 0 5.8 20.7 0
Number of occurrences139 1 0 1 2 0
Number of authors9 6 1 1 1

Occurrences of virtually in Corpus

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Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Virtually Ragin on page 45

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
political agitation his been virtually ignored and it is a tellin py on page 59

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
It's haurd, solid, virtually real I said on page 85

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
wis virtually invalided oot the Pits eftir on page 134

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
bakin African sun. There wis virtually nae game in the vicinity and
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@ashwilsonauthor m8 am virtually worldwide noo wae ma satellit (2021) twitter link
lusManiac @stuurq as there is virtually no amateur football at the mo (2020) twitter link
l the questions she takes are virtually from the same people everyday (2020) twitter link
exactly - snp have virtually destroyed the hospitality ind (2021) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
LAberdonia Widnae disagree - virtually nithin on target but I would (2022) twitter link

Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
misogynistic abuse an dey'll virtually ignore it an laeve you winder(2021) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
bs. Nooradays ocht's possible virtually. Ah ken and nor twae here wha (2020) twitter link
Indeed no. Harder tae dae it virtually but needs must as the Deil dr (2020) twitter link