A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'utterly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
utterlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.82211
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 92.7 2 1
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 18.2 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 9.3 7 4
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 utterly in Corpus

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Shetland

Fraser, Barbara Aye Someane Deid, Aye Someane Boarn, (Shetland Times 2021 ISBN: 978-1910997437) Shetland, prose
y ever comes near her. Shü's utterly devoted ta dem, but hit's a w on page 44

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Whaur we cam fae: the Pechts, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
even claims that the Scots “utterly destroyed” the Pechts whan
hon lest idea, that the Scots utterly destroyed the Pechts, haes be
2 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
pathwey ah become transfixed. Utterly mesmerised by her curvy erse on page 84
watch Cinderella" ah respond, utterly beaten. on page 137
ved in the room the place wis utterly rammed. Ma new classmates bus on page 188

3 matches

Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
d Danny starin at each other, utterly speechless. This fuckin scumb
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
that level! There wis anither utterly miserable nicht an in the mor on page 42
Utterly forfauchten, it took the ladd on page 102

2 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 4, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ma hands in ma puss. Ma soul utterly destroyed. Until ah finally p
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
e be amongst this, but I feel utterly separate fae it, like it belo on page 3

3 matches

Bennett, Peter The Party ay the Year (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
A fur the night, it’d be an utterly pointless exercise.
1 matches

General Central

McClurg, Fernando Weill, weill, weill, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
a Dugdale haes failed, failed utterly, tae lay sae muckle as a glov
1 matches

@ClashCityClarky tweeted
then goes on to compare this utterly appalling (and entirely endem(2018)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@AJEnglish He is completely, utterly, arse over elbow, seventy sev(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
ist watched #Dorohedoro. It's utterly mad, but gey entertainin. Dis(2020)
accents is incredible. She's utterly brilliant in #KillingEve, an (2020)
is audio. This doctor shud be utterly ashamed. Whit a despicable, d(2020)
le on @BBCFOUR last nicht wis utterly enthrallin. If true-life spy (2020)

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
id me is unforgivable bit ahm utterly accepted! Oan the ither haun,(2020)