Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'inferior'

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Use in varieties of Scots

inferior	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	5.3	17	7
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
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	15.3	6	2
WCE - West Central	13.8	3	1
DUN - Dundee	31.9	3	1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	5.4	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	5.3	4	2
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 inferior in Corpus

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(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
ies, d'ye think?) - hae been inferior .
Whit div A mean by inferior ? Simply this - they felt the
y this - they felt theirsels inferior an believit that the names th
3 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 177, (self-published 2008) Central, newspaper
eak is juist a local slang or inferior form o English as weel as eik
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
. If it’s ‘wrong’ or ‘inferior ’ or ‘bastardised’ then
1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 105, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
cep that Scots the day is the inferior communication graith o the wa
1 matches

West Central

@annieones tweeted
to feel that our language is inferior! Im trying to change that. Ye (2021) twitter link
cotland,teld tae often we wur inferior! Perhaips ye wur tae! (2021) twitter link
ens english" and made to feel inferior for speaking with a Scottish (2021) twitter link

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
An they were white fowk, no 'inferior' bleck fowk. We shuid aye min on page 21
'propogate their language as inferior'. This is precisely whit wis on page 60
e them, in ae wey or anither, inferior. Things are gettin better but on page 65

3 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter McShane's Reprieve, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
will inevitably result in an inferior product. Cunts won’t care t
1 matches

General Central

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
concern that Scots is seen as inferior tae
s that Scots is treatit as an inferior leid.
their community leid is inferior tae English. The argument is
3 matches

Douglas, Ashley The Maitland Quarto and Poem 49, (wee-windaes.nls.uk 2021) Central, prose
ere thocht tae be emotionally inferior and sicweys incapable o formi
1 matches