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The word 'secretly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
secretlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21410
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 91.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 1
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of secretly in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
bairns kent, bit Minnie Bruce secretly thocht the shelt micht be an
1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ae the tune o Haughton Hoose, secretly apologisin in his heid tae Ju
1 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 59 - Raymond Vettese : nineteen poems, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Montrose, poetry
Bitterly secret or secretly brave
1 matches

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
a ye go," Eurystheus ordered, secretly hopin that Hercules widna com on page 6
rcules had been awa too lang. Secretly he wis scunnered Hercules had on page 45

2 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
he said, Are yi sure yi don't secretly fancy Clicky, an then she coc on page 169

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
gestion wis tae kidnap him an secretly send him aff tae America or A on page 85
tae his freedom. He then left secretly fer America, whaur he sadly d on page 124

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
he Covenant wad mak their wey secretly, in twas an threes, up lanely on page 28
Secretly feart frae the stert that she on page 70

2 matches

General Central

Curt_Kenobi Mates, (archiveofourown.org 2016) Central, prose
- - That's an experience. Ah secretly covet ehs compliment tae me w
1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
e, I'm starting tae think you secretly want indy tae but you're worr(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
@Tulachan15 Ah think he secretly likes the idea o' independenc(2021)

General Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
It secretly maves ain alang, on page 22

1 matches

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