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The word 'nasty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nastyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.12918
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness) 35.2 1 1
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 3
WCE - West Central 23 5 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 27.1 5 2
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)
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 nasty in Corpus

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Orkney

@peediepuss tweeted
@orkneyrd Nasty piece o work he is (2020) twitter link

North Northern B (Caithness)

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
Wur family always hated cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Dinna li on page 21

1 matches

Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
They're nasty things bit cwid be waur on page 15

1 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
tae loup oot an div something nasty!(2014)

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
I'm nae being nasty, it's nae no coz i dinna wint(2011)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
is batterin her again. He's a nasty piece ae work. Could you go u on page 145

1 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
Number three wis definitely a nasty piece o work and deserved tae
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
usty railings is tapped wae a nasty-looking spike. Ah’m sure ye
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
rusty railins is tapped wae a nasty-lookin spike, okay?
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ever bully her or say anythin nasty then Wully McCoy an Laura McN on page 76
upset an thinkin aboot aw the nasty stuff she's been sayin recent on page 101
d Charlene. She didnae say it nasty though fur wance but Harpreet on page 106
eath an even though he wis an nasty aul bastart (so says ma ma) w on page 169

5 matches

Dundee

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
an turn nasty, on page 94

1 matches

Edinburgh

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
here. Even wae that ah hud a nasty incident in the toilet nixt t
1 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
cunts drank bottles ae pound nasty, pure gut-rot dry cider that on page 12
Six plastic bottles ae pound nasty rollin oot. Next tae the lane on page 15

2 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
l her. Am ah really bein that nasty? Ah could tell ye suhin actua on page 1

3 matches

General Central

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Tae tak yon nasty taste awa. on page 90

1 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - Three Waddins and Fowr Funerals - a monologue, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
A nasty shock? Ye may weel say that! on page 59

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ome of it valid but some real nasty bastards tae.(2020)

@SusiBriggs1 tweeted
@AnneSutGB Nasty wee woman.(2018)

@Chazzbat tweeted
ller didnae believe me an got nasty really quick.(2020)
Todd's aye bin nasty. How quick ye forget, Billy. (2020)
lad tae hear it. Toothache is nasty.(2020)

@ThonJacobite tweeted
Down with Scotland and those nasty Separatists".(2021)

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