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The word 'arguably'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
arguablyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3105
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 21 2 1
DOR - General Northern 17.7 4 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 arguably in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat Bob the Dog fae the Bog, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
loochy in the burnin midden, arguably een o the maist complicated p
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Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
re daesnae stap at that thou. Arguably, the maist spectacular pairt on page 4
m Bridge' was opened in 1999. Arguably, some o the best kent views o on page 7

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
g. He’s nae Beckenbauer, but arguably passing fae the back is harde (2022) twitter link
one chunce - it comes , but arguably oor best performer, Hedges, h (2020) twitter link
files, valued much higher but arguably as mingin, in Cooper and McTo (2020) twitter link
in the first half and Boyle, arguably Hibs’ maist potent outlet - (2020) twitter link

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
figures is that unreliable at arguably the twa percentage pynts disn on page 9

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 63 - Auld plain Scottis, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
tae coexist for a lang time (arguably up tae the present-day). I th
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Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
arie medium o Lallans, tae an arguably naituralistic form that apes
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