A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'deliberately'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
deliberatelyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.11715
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 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.3 4 3
WCE - West Central 8.9 2 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 7.9 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 deliberately in Corpus

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Shetland

@Julie_Dennison tweeted
@tattooedselkie Ya, turns oot deliberately laevin yir phone on airplane (2021) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
er me, but Scots & Gaelic wis deliberately suppressed as weel. If yer ai (2021) twitter link

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
e stood atween me an the door deliberately cause he kent I wid have taen on page 21

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
the Scots language haes been deliberately singelt oot for this kinna in
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 178, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
a hidden agenda an thon's tae deliberately allou the language tae dee oo
1 matches

Fleemin, Sandy Report on Inquiry intil the role Submission, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central - East Lothian, government
spellin in Scots can be uized deliberately tae mak the soondin clear, an
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
an it's no as if Charlene wid deliberately affload wee Morgan ontae me c on page 169

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
They deliberately flooded the pit! on page 77

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
can haurdly coont as a dic, a deliberately incurred cost, a bairn wilful
1 matches

General Central

Donovan, Anne Hieroglyphics and Other Stories - All that Glistens, (Canongate 2004 ISBN: 1841955191) Central, prose
icer than the wan ah’d made deliberately. The outline wis blurred and
1 matches

@WhenDidADidny tweeted
ie on to your show so you can deliberately try to embarrass and belittle (2018) twitter link

@billykayscot tweeted
ody the blinn”? (English: to deliberately not turn up for a date, to st(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
Ah widnae pit it past him tae deliberately kill him.(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
the hopeless diddies that she deliberately chooses tae be near her, will (2022) twitter link
e be like Greenock wis. She's deliberately taken the wind oot the moveme (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
i the Scottis Borders, A wis deliberately denied ma human richt tae lai
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
thUK @ColinBurnett16 You seem deliberately glaikit tae the pynt o thrawn (2020) twitter link