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The word 'fortunately'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
fortunatelyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3107
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 4.9 2 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
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 10 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of fortunately in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
oat tae the heid ae the line. Fortunately, fur masel, when it wis ma tu on page 31

1 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
e the situation deteriorates. Fortunately fur him, likes. This Marvin s
1 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
Their canon fired constantly. Fortunately the grund didnae allow them t
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ying to see you face to face. Fortunately, there’s no sweetheart.”
rate’ the ‘preesoners’. Fortunately, Raggle had noticed as weill.
2 matches

General Central

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
tae stop an stert again, when fortunately his wife interrupted an said on page 7

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
Fortunately, we hae a wheen braw represen
Fortunately, some o these barrae cemeteri
2 matches

@LairnScots tweeted
ae their time at schuil. Noo, fortunately, we hae #Scots as pairt o 1+2 (2020) twitter link

General Ulster

@MarkThompStuff tweeted
@StuartPoet Fortunately him & his wife had a brave wh(2020)