A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'supposedly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
supposedlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.91610
ORK - Orkney
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 32.8 3 2
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central 9.2 2 1
DUN - Dundee 53.1 5 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 supposedly 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.

Shetland

Watt, Valerie An onkerry for a kerry oot, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
platched aboot in da tin bath supposedly washin da bedlaes wi dir claa
1 matches

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Bidin awa: City Breaks, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Doric - Aberdeen, newspaper
fit shares the same name was supposedly introducit tae King Louis XIV on page 17

1 matches

@Woodside Wullie tweeted
s glaikit tweet aboot a bairn supposedly shouting “but you have covid (2021) twitter link

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 63 - Beggerey’s Greenhoose, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
‘I loved my wife,’ he’d supposedly said, ‘But she wisnae telli
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
w they year's ae ill will tae supposedly disappear. on page 98

1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
tae me. Charlene went wi her, supposedly tae make sure she wis awright on page 93
an aw the other folk that had supposedly tried tae kill themself that on page 153

2 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
insyne, een a whisper fae the supposedly independent members o the Sco on page 42
e Pairliament itsel, which is supposedly whaur the defence o 'the Brit on page 55
n abune oor wecht', due tae a supposedly glorious imperial past. An, a on page 119
cal arrangement that his been supposedly warkin tae oor benefit fer ow on page 126

5 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
scranned that, the wee prick. Supposedly leapt n took it out of some i
1 matches

General Central

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
o a leid on the grunds at it (supposedly) wints a staundart an eke a b on page 56

1 matches

Ewen, Allan Murphy’s Law, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
e. Aa this fae the cheil that supposedly wants tae mak the Scottish La
1 matches

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