A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

savages Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 3.6 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences87 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of savages in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
his thrapple by three drucken savages - an a pack load o guid brai on page 34
y James Douglas an his Hielan savages, while three mair were dragge on page 62

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ey really were jist a bunch o savages afore the Empire came alang t on page 20
it wis best fer oorsels, bein savages. The constant repetition o th on page 115

2 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
were jist the ignorant local savages they representit mispronoonci
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
ack squad - there’s nae sic savages elsewhere alloued tae wear co(2020) search twitter

@Chazzbat tweeted
innae mind ony revolt by the "savages" in the original story either(2020) search twitter

Doric

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@Chazzbat And stovies made wi savages or corned beef is.??(2019) search twitter