A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'virtually'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
virtuallyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.9139
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 12.9 5 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 virtually in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
misogynistic abuse an dey'll virtually ignore it an laeve you winder(2021)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
LAberdonia Widnae disagree - virtually nithin on target but I would (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Lion Rampant, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
bakin African sun. There wis virtually nae game in the vicinity and
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@ashwilsonauthor m8 am virtually worldwide noo wae ma satellit (2021) twitter link
lusManiac @stuurq as there is virtually no amateur football at the mo (2020) twitter link
l the questions she takes are virtually from the same people everyday (2020) twitter link
exactly - snp have virtually destroyed the hospitality ind (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
political agitation his been virtually ignored and it is a tellin py on page 59

1 matches

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
Virtually Ragin on page 45

1 matches

Chisnall, Edward F. H. Yer Ain, The Young Yins and the Auld Yin, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012764) Central - Glasgow, poetry
It's haurd, solid, virtually real I said on page 85

1 matches

General Central

Wilson, Rab Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, prose
wis virtually invalided oot the Pits eftir on page 134

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South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
bs. Nooradays ocht's possible virtually. Ah ken and nor twae here wha (2020) twitter link
Indeed no. Harder tae dae it virtually but needs must as the Deil dr (2020) twitter link