A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'commonly'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
commonlyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.21410
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 9.2 7 4
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 commonly 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.

Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
or small, peerie would be the commonly used word in Shetland, with p (2021) twitter link

Shetland

Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
lley" - dat used tae be used commonly in da sooth end for weekend.

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
lach95 @Lenniesaurus It's nae commonly used but there is a word hame (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
siness. An businessmen arenae commonly ower keen on losin siller jis on page 139

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
s, the fairies were the maist commonly seen, or talkit aboot, itherw on page 29

1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
y the British army were quite commonly seen an played wi, but an occ on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
schare. Aa sh wirds are maist commonly sch in Auld Scottis. Hooivver on page 59

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Donati, Colin Scots A Statement o Principles, (Scots Parliament 2003 ISBN: 978-1-899920-02-1) Central, government
peakers o Scots, as weel, are commonly miscawed an excludit socially on page 8
m, faur frae bein a backhaud, commonly gies a body skeel wi words an on page 11

2 matches

Horsbroch, Dauvit Scots Warks - Uphaud an guidance for screivars, (Scots Language Centre 2015) Central, government
oa'. This can be fund in mony commonly used words comprehendin 'shop on page 18

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Horsbroch, Dauvit A gang-roond oor Sun Grid, (Scots Language Centre 2020) Central, blog
gowd an uranium that's maist commonly makkit whan a starn dees.
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Horsbroch, Dauvit Are The Onybody Ither?, (Scots Language Centre 2022) Central, blog
in the air that humans didna commonly see or ken. He spak o ae inst
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
15th century, Scots wis maist commonly cried Inglis. Thon is tae sey
1 matches

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