A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'onnly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
onnlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus11.1374
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 215.1 37 4
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
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 onnly in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
s a sad state o affairs at da onnly place I can get a piece a kir on page 9
John Tamson innocent! If shü onnly kent. Bit I canna believe at on page 11
y wirna da cars at is noo, an onnly twa buses tae da toon i da we on page 14
wir Sunday dennir, dat wis da onnly shop meat we hedd. Doris keep on page 15
du's Alec's sister, dat's da onnly raeson he dances wi dee, he's on page 19
Also on pages 33, 37, 42, 55, 56, 60, 61, 73, 77, 78, 92
21 matches

Johnson, Laureen Saands o Maywick, (Shetland For Wirds 2004) Shetland, prose
n fairly disjaskit, an yet no onnly dat. An da men aroond aa sayi
da first place. An I wisna da onnly een, for dey wir a lock o wee
2 matches

Tait, John M Shaetlan is Daed - Lang live Dialect, (Shetland Dialect Conference 2004 2004) Shetland, prose
st atween dialect an language onnly comes aboot whaar ee language
young we spack Shaetlan - we onnly needit da wird ‘dialect’
translation, a distinction at onnly appeared whin you wir leukin
™s a purely relative term, at onnly comes ta be relevant whin you
st, standard English, ene. Da onnly differs is ‘aa’ for ‘al
12 matches

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
r aa pitten oot dir essybags, onnly we irna. Dis isna da sam as S

Facebook link (I Hear Dee 2021) Shetland - Shetland
affen aroond da wirld, an is onnly fun in Eurasian languages. Da

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