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The word 'idiots'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
idiotsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.6187
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 35.4 8 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 18.4 4 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
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 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.

General Northern

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

(South) East Central

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

West Central

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

Edinburgh

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

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
dised pig in a bucket? Fuckin idiots, man. on page 60

1 matches

General Central

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