A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'mostly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
mostlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.81612
ORK - Orkney 29.8 3 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 70.3 2 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.5 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.3 3 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 mostly in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
nd is below the horizon, it's mostly just the Hill groond we can s (2020) twitter link
refix in Orkney. I'm thinking mostly of older folk and the most co(2020)
y, and very hard to describe. Mostly I hear it in the word 'teu'= (2020)

Shetland

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
ech and the printed words are mostly invisible.’ Ah, bit you see
1 matches

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
i hearts. Next came e guests, mostly Kings an Queens, an amang the on page 76
"Pepper, mostly," sade e cook. on page 110

2 matches

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
innocent..hahaha hardly...we mostly met up in Cranhill and were a (2021) twitter link

Aberdeen

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
It's mostly Charolais bulls that Harold b on page 29

1 matches

General Northern

Smith, Derek Northwords Now 43 - Derek Smith, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2022) Doric, poetry
stack the odds in my favour. Mostly. on page 18

1 matches

@Franwella tweeted
wn adult...well almost grown, mostly adult.....I will not tak lapt(2011)

(South) East Central

McKinlay, Kieran Walk Way to Fame, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
ions fur bein bad. But it was mostly fir skippin classes tae play
1 matches

Muir, Glenn David of Seafield, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
r. He wis cute, richt enough, mostly black in colour wi a tan brei
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@ScottishLabour elc was aways mostly labour controlled brian - wa (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
join us. These kinda cunts ir mostly harmless, but if they hud bee on page 12
t wae other young teams. They mostly move aboot the town freely. A on page 23

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
gling, hiccuping, nae answer, mostly nae notice. on page 3

1 matches

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