A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'differently'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
differentlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.91614
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 12.5 2 2
GLA - Glasgow 22.8 5 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 differently in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
An is so differently fairmed on page 14

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General Northern

Carney, Don Doric: Alive an Kickin 2, (Argo Publishing 2006 ISBN: 978-0954615321) Doric, prose
r ony gweed tale, can be seen differently each time the story is read. on page 5

1 matches

(South) East Central

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
ist o us wad dae it a wee bit differently. No that ye'd ken frae the we
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Edinburgh

Capener, Jack No Guid Eneuch, (Bella Caledonia 2019) Central, blog
ne, we hae tae cairry wirsels differently. Scots speakers are stertin t
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
nt - maybes his body reactit differently tae extremes o temperature. H
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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter nobody remembers the birdman - Stovies, (Association for Scottish Literature 2022) Central, prose
Jeanie. Fur mibbe dain things differently, if we hud oor time again. on page 12

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Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
, ' let's do things a wee bit differently today. Boys, would you care _ on page 52
is could have been dealt with differently. So, you were attacked?' on page 54

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
. Ah wonder if ah'd huv acted differently wi Daddy if ah'd known that w on page 7

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Bennett, Peter Stovies, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
Jeanie. Fur mibbe dain things differently, if we hud oor time again.
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General Central

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
li. Sae whit wey div we think differently aboot Scots in compare wi aw on page 6

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Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
reends and faimly, and aw sae differently on page 35

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Ewen, Allan The “Auld Lang Syne” Paradox, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
can spell wurds significantly differently frae ithers due tae represent
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Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
word that’s sometimes spelt differently – ‘hous’, or ‘hoose
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@fairpechtoot tweeted
rd ‘standardise’ is spelled differently in British Engli(2019)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ma schooldays, a was treated differently gae ma peers socially and edu (2020) twitter link