Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

demented	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	2.5	2	3	9.9	0	0	4.4
Number of occurrences	8	4	2	1	0	0	1
Number of authors	8	4	2	1			1

Occurrences of demented 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.

Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
The boays looks stunned and demented. "We are still talking about on page 161

1 matches

Watt, George T. Lallans 74 - Distempered, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, poetry
oor gulsoch minds sair demented,
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Paisley, Janet Lallans 62 - The Numpty, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
e. Weel, she ran at me like a demented loon an kicked ma shin again.
1 matches

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
naw…coo coo fuckin coo. Am demented. They won’t swally the disi
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Doric

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
Billie: The daft, demented doactur wha created me didnae on page 40

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Gray, Kath Lallans 63 - Aikey Brae Fair – 1962, (Lallans Magazine 2003) Doric, prose
ol but she’s been drivin us demented wi askin about Aikey Fair an
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Orkney

Hall, Simon W. New Lambs, Owld Stone, (Brisk Northerly 2017) Orkney, blog
Meeeh! till yur cheust aboot demented wae it.
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Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
It sent him fair demented, on page 34

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