A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'essentially'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
essentiallyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus1.866
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 6
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 essentially in Corpus

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General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
hat Scots wis a leid that wis essentially past an widnae wirk on the st on page 35

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
appens raither afen. (Een the essentially freindly Scottish Place-Names on page 56

1 matches

Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
The forleitin o Clause IV essentially ended the Labour Perty’s ex
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s linguistic launscape – Scottish Staunart English and Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
w sorts o pairt o speech, but essentially whaurivver English orthograph
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ngs force people to stay home essentially keeping people prisoner but t(2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
Invented in Glasgae hen. It's essentially a sweet Indian curry. Ah cann (2022) twitter link

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