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The word 'critics'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
criticsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.31713
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 6
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 62.8 2 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 51.2 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of critics 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.

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Doric wirdie an oot cums the critics tae play!(2018)

General Northern

Hamilton, Roddy Lallans 58 - Cyaard, the Tattie Doodle, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Doric, prose
reenhoose, made famous by art critics, an classified a listit build on page 118

1 matches

(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
es a wheen European poets and critics, and the inevitable Derrida. on page 95

2 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
Bit critics noo an efter will admit
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
e tae the gallows tae see his critics hanged".'" He got aff. on page 123

1 matches

General Central

Brown, Ian Lallans 70 - The Scots leid in modren Scots drama, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
pin ither cultural wirkers an critics tae set the politico-cultural on page 36
reeted wi vituperation bi the critics an in the press. This wis aib on page 39
wk includin makars, actors an critics argied that he wis misunnerst on page 40

3 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
2. Stairheid Critics on page 71

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando Tae see oorsels as we see ithers, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
n unfair advantage, but monie critics sees the muive as a pairtisan
1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Fur maist o history, anonymous wis a wumman, (Scottish Poetry Library 2022) Central, prose
irst place noo leads academic critics tae assume that anonymous poe
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
e WGD's reply tae Billy Kay's critics ( maistly Unionists) !! It su (2022) twitter link

@billykayscot tweeted
al leaders lead. A lot of the critics though live in an Indy bubble(2020)

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
ough he had his fair share of critics, nyaffs an nyirs nyitterin at on page 33

2 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Dornan, Stephen The Widenin Sheuch, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Ulster, blog
cots the day. Maist folk, fae critics an acamedics tae general read
1 matches

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