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The word 'highly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
highlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.81915
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 3
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 13.3 10 8
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 highly in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. Lamborghini: Cult o the Bull, (Brisk Northerly 2015) Orkney, blog
comes close tae hagiography: highly-skilled mechanic, an entrepre
1 matches

Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
m here i da mid fifties. Very highly educated, wi a first class de on page 13

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General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@FaeFoggie Wid highly recommend gan in tae Castleto(2019)

West Central

@annieones tweeted
uolingo #Gaidhlig Truth is am highly addicted... knew aboot 4 wurd (2021) twitter link
threatened by an intelligent, highly talented young lassie promoti (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
'Ah highly doubt that, hen.' on page 9

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Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
’ Joe sais. ‘he’s a bit highly strung, hairmless though if y
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Grae, Emma Billy's Ghost Dug, (liarsleague.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
who’s oan the hunt fur a ‘highly active’ haunted dolls hoose
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General Central

Beekman, Tony Lallans 84 - The Fate o the Philosopher, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
A wis wrang. A thocht it wis highly improbable that a self-causin on page 49

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Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
fur an answer. She knows how highly ah hink o the Virgin and says on page 48
g aboot Bettie Bucket wis hoo highly ma Isla thocht o hur. She gat on page 79

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
e social constructs which are highly effective in persuading those on page 56

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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
doot’ can mean either ‘I highly doubt that’, ’I am certai
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Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
0 and had several ither poems highly commendit. In 2021 his transl
s ‘Ode tae Aphrodite’ was highly commendit by Sangschaw. These
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@OliphantWullie tweeted
@RCunningham_MMM Next wid highly recommend the Dolomites in no (2022) twitter link

@DABArbuckle tweeted
e. Your interfering wae their highly complex death and burial ritu(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
t @glasgowpauline also speaks highly of him. Do that's two trustwo (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
Nummer one. A’m highly allergic tae certain breeds a
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