A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'basically'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
basicallyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus10.53520
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 29.1 5 3
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 19.5 8 2
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee 42.5 4 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 15.4 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 7
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 basically in Corpus

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Orkney

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
", an German "herbst" ær ell basically the sæm wurd - wae the sæm

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
makkin interrogatives). De'r basically twa main kinds o questions, c on page 89

2 matches

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
lane mode ta avoid contact an basically formin alibis fir yir holiday (2021) twitter link
enin Mam ta pick up, I hae ta basically exaggerate my greeting so dey (2021) twitter link

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
dow ?? Well, I say meadow but basically i stopped cuttin da girs, add(2019)

Mid Northern B

@McGoo1888 tweeted
an English if yer left wing...basically nice...Struggling tae underst (2022) twitter link

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
al o relief wi that ‘goal’, basically injured the hail time under G (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
Which, if truth be telt. Wis basically her wey ae yit again remindin on page 59
hud him oan a string. He wis basically foamin at the mooth, eh? Sali on page 99

2 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
terested the whole game m8 - basically a waste oh space (2021) twitter link
he box were sublime m8 - n u basically ran the show fae the back awe (2020) twitter link
ty - police officers there r basically trying to cause distress - h (2020) twitter link
@stevie27boyo basically what am sayin is - if folk a (2021) twitter link
basically what am sayin is the peffermi (2020) twitter link
and 1 other occurrences.

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
hair that'd been dyed stupit; basically, she looked absolutely nothin on page 68

1 matches

@MizLiot tweeted
typing when he blocked me but basically it was gonna be ‘sorry, whit (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
a pairty system, but a system basically designit tae gie fowk the cho on page 30
ir. Aince mair this argiement basically says it cannae wark on accoon on page 145

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
s o a couple o Latin poets an basically showin aff tae ane anither - on page 26
r in the century the toun wis basically policed by the toun councillo on page 103

2 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
became hostile and miserable. Basically, it felt like Scotland again.
1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
i mah ain phone then. Mine is basically a brick though. Dolly's hus a on page 6
ng. Everywhere but in the pan basically. It's like that toilet in Tra on page 61

2 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
heid in fur making me sick an basically killin mah da. on page 4

1 matches

General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
awa. But yin kind o book that basically naebody likes tae read are bo on page 83

1 matches

Dempster, Michael DIGNITY, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
basically English
a dug is basically
2 matches

McClurg, Fernando Review: O is for Hoolet, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
lex idea weill pit across – basically leukin at the different an un
1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
the Coca-Cola Cup. So he wis basically like Superman and it wis a to
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
no usually serious anes, sae basically it’s sayin the last time the(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
traits o psychopaths. They're basically describin Trump.(2020)

@LowEndJardo tweeted
tress ball on me at all times basically so that I’ve got something t (2021) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
we're saying the same thing, basically.(2020)