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The word 'precisely'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
preciselyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3108
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10.2 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 precisely in Corpus

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General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Indicate precisely fit ye mean an think, on page 135

1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ks, but differs nochttheless) precisely wi the aim of signallin their
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
anguage as inferior'. This is precisely whit wis done via the Educati on page 60
ody else gets puirer. That is precisely the pynt o Tory policy. Neer on page 81

2 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
“Precisely.” He struck a macho pose, t
1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ah’m starin at him, or mare precisely, the wee bit ay white foam th
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bools, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
’s optimists, he is. It’s precisely because he’s actin like thi
1 matches

General Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ever what Mairshall has duin, precisely. on page 72

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
e new spellin recommendations precisely acause they tak a step back f on page 56

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South East (Borders)

@officialAliRed tweeted
@XENONHORNET Precisely that, I think, “Back Braes”(2019)