A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'literally'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
literallyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus12.74232
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 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 4
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 3
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire 21.4 2 2
LAL - General Central 23.6 18 13
SEA - South East (Borders) 24.2 2 2
SWE - South West (Galloway) 27.9 2 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 literally in Corpus

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Orkney

Facebook link (Orkney Reevlers 2021) Orkney
aust/høst" means autumn, bit literally hid means "gatheran in crops"

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
roese. So da wird fir da dysh literally means 'shappit maet', on page 103

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Mid Northern A

Hutchison, Pat The Tabby Sooker, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
h the thocht o fine tabby wiz literally burnin a hole in ma pooch, so
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@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
), bizcocho/a (bonnie person, literally a biscuit), chuspa (pyock). (2021) twitter link

General Northern

Shearer, Gillian Tales Fae The Doric Side - Guernica, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
caused by the bombing...lives literally torn apart? on page 40

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@72redz1903 tweeted
taking the interpretation too literally and she should have been mair (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
mistak o pronouncin the names literally as (Bur-ness). This is wrang
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Malgrati, Paul Ayont the Fake and the Leal: Let's Free the Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
"This guy is faking it and I literally am struggling to listen to it
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Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
This didnae last long, he literally wet himself when Big Brenda s
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@kennethbryce184 tweeted
iffy decision this - ffs am literally 5 minutes fae the park - orm (2020) twitter link
mer blow from the fm 2 day - literally spelling out solitary confine (2021) twitter link

West Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
er word, opened her haund and literally lowsed him. He wis danglin a on page 144

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Ye've become, literally, on page 37

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Clark, Thomas Radge Against the Machine: Deid Wirds, Deid Warlds, an Why Scots Maitters, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central - Bellshill, blog
th oor pairliaments are void, literally empty - spent frae the momen
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Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
nson, whit dae they ken o the literally thoosans o ither Scots screiv on page 75

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Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 3, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
ot the fact that ah’m quite literally livin oan a prayer.
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Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Liberties (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
prick, Jorg Albertz, it wis. Literally a fuckin Hun! Kin ye believe
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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
‘Ah don’t mean literally.’ ah sais, deadpan. ‘Itâ€
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
w the thing confrontin ye. It literally wis yer mither's tongue as a on page 23

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Lehane, Matt Aye an Ay, (bandcamp 2006) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
ay an aye quite literally.
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General Central

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
e, tae lairn the odds atween "literally" and "figuratively". If somet on page 68
ly - ye're gonnae mairry her literally! This play willnae jist be ki on page 97

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Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
he warld." I interpretit that literally an spent a lot o time traivel on page 8

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Douglas, Ashley Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
orial launchin a new magazine literally aw aboot scrievin in it - bu on page 3

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Calder, Bob Lallans 58 - Allmairshall, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ough. He is speakin perfectly literally: he griens gently efter an un on page 72

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McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
e obviously needs tae address literally several fowk, as imaginary th
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Douglas, Ashley The Smeddum o Scots, (languagereach.com 2021) Central, prose
wirds sic as ‘aye-bidin’; literally, ‘always staying’, but ge
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Facebook link ( 2019) Central
pers grab haud o the airm and literally screw it oot .... and aw with

Douglas, Ashley Scotland’s Linguistic Landscape - Scots and Gaelic, (Translation Services 24 2022) Central, prose
e cried A’ Bheurla Ghallta; literally, “the English o the Lowland
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@jamieonkeys tweeted
l T Davies there wad hae been literally *nae* LGBT+ drama on British (2021)

@jax6754 tweeted
ssion and ma butt kicked (not literally) by @JeffBrazier @ComeCoachWi(2015)

@iainnicol tweeted
@scottishlabour literally the maist important thing ye (2020)

@IshbelMcF tweeted
’m gey gled thae hings is noo literally his hale job - an heÂ’s daei(2018)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
ss tae gie Reiki a wee go. It literally saved ma life.(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
ing tae be up fer discussion. Literally every day changes that, even (2022) twitter link

@ThonJacobite tweeted
ah say 'it saved ma life' ah literally mean it saved ma life. Also t(2021)

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
wis cryit, ee stood literally tae attention, on the tither
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@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
ric. Ahm useless with latter, literally! ??(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - No In-gleesh, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
oman Forum, and the ruins are literally sittin jist ootside the winda
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Haddow, Kris Haud the Bus - The Stert ae World War III?, (The Wee Paper 2022) Central, prose
op, skip and a jump later (no literally, am no that daft) A’m in th
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