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The word 'corrupt'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
corruptOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.41410
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
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 12.8 5 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.7 5 4
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 corrupt in Corpus

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General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
o view the Police as an often corrupt and racist institution that h (2022) twitter link

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross Eemis Stane 1 - Ane Dialog betwix King James VI, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, script
mes spak in sic rusticall and corrupt aliene tongues! on page 11

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
speak in Scotland wis jist a corrupt dialeck o English? An bein, l
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS nummer 109, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
eistem in its own richt, no a corrupt version o Inglis. The thing A
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
year at the enquiry - snp r corrupt from top to bottom ! (2020) twitter link
c are the dregs of society - corrupt from top to bottom - live in (2020) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
e pynt in brakkin awa fae the corrupt an hypocritical Westminster m on page 33

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
nry the Ninth. Parliament wis corrupt tae its core an even the Prim on page 121

1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Ye wull corrupt no fertilise. on page 35

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Robinson, Christine Lallans 70 - The Language o the Glasgow Unity Plays, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
dialect has become hopelessly corrupt’3. Nae doot the authors o t
wa fine in this ‘hopelessly corrupt’ dialect.
2 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
tice system as incompetent an corrupt. No a great advertisement fer(2020)

@LairnScots tweeted
ectures sought tae eradicate 'corrupt dialects'. ?? https://t.co/XV (2020) twitter link

South East (Borders)

Purves, David Lallans 67 - The Incomparable Li Po (701-762), (Lallans Magazine 2005) Southern - Selkirk, poetry
sult o misrepresentation as a corrupt kynd o Inglish for fowr hunde on page 34

1 matches

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