A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

idiots Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.8 5.3 12.8 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1810 8 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of idiots 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.

Central

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2003 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
dised pig in a bucket? Fuckin idiots, man. on page 60

1 matches

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
k they used tae dae wi aw the idiots in primary school. David Dona on page 46
an we baith hate narra mindet idiots. | on page 169

4 matches

McKillop, Roger Challengin' Times, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
it’s like in school? Whaur idiots an’ numpties rule!
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
her, Bill wis aye cursin. “Idiots! Idiots! Might have known the
! Idiots! Might have known they’d bi
2 matches

@bigandymccoll tweeted
. The gender-pish world these idiots live in disnae operate like t (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
getting treated like complete idiots - as for the spirit of the r (2021) twitter link

Doric

@fittiecrooners tweeted
hite was on! Fit next? Bloody idiots coming aff yon boats(2016) search twitter
first place. Like tae see yon idiots strike when their oot o' work(2016) search twitter
tting the great news that yon idiots at the @AberdeenCouncil has f(2018) search twitter
that ?? ye get on nowadays we idiots howling away #bringbackdustyb(2018) search twitter
iously expecting us tae a bee idiots that will transfer cash!!(2018) search twitter
and 2 other occurrences.