A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

fucking Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words12.8 19.5 1.5 0 0 20.7 0
Number of occurrences4138 1 0 0 2 0
Number of authors17 14 1 2

Occurrences of fucking 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

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
te, 'then I WOULDN'T STILL BE FUCKING LOOKING FOR IT? An away she g on page 17

1 matches

Cunningham, Lucy nothing but a set of eyes for stars - Swedish Fish, (Association for Scottish Literature 2023 ISBN: 978-1906841546) Central, prose
chen. "Wit's happened tae the fucking beans?' A ran doon fast as a on page 41

1 matches

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
not! Because I am such a good fucking counsellor!!! on page 1

2 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
man. It was fuckin rank, Ah'd fucking wriggle aboot in the front se on page 76

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
yer a fucking mythical beast on page 78

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
en chattin the maste vapid of fucking sentiments, he’d landed him
but nae difference he’d aye fucking giggle an look right proud. E
explain here. Thelonious is a fucking ferret, n he’s bonkers. Ahâ
‘Fucking whalloper’, Nichols laughed
‘Whit? Yer fucking barmy ye incredulous twat’,
11 matches

Bolland, John A Chocolate Cowboy, (From Glasgow To Saturn 2008) Central, prose
n, the swing, the Park in the fucking Dark. An Derek.
1 matches

Philips, Cally Gonnae No Dae That, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Central - Turriff, prose
doon the river – an’ sing fucking Floor o’ Scotlan’.
wricht. That’s scrieve, ya fucking ignorant bampot they micht sh
2 matches

grandeicedcoffees Do You Wanna Touch, (archiveofourown.org 2021) Central, prose
’m no paying attention to a fucking Sean Connery movie ah’v see
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
stop you fae standing back 2 fucking meters. His face ????(2020) search twitter
en telling us that weÂ’re too fucking stupid tae run our country be(2020) search twitter

@IshbelMcF tweeted
ere win-, here win-, here win-fucking-dowÂ’, a piece of banterous w(2019) search twitter

@DABArbuckle tweeted
@Alan_Cochrane ONE WEEKEND . FUCKING BELLEND. Held hostage? Fuckin(2020) search twitter
obertMiggins LOOKS absolutely fucking majic by the way(2020) search twitter

@rattlecans tweeted
hip the ever so civilised 6ft fucking deaconess aroon the couch and (2022) twitter link
e poor, especially if they're fucking paid tae dae it (2022) twitter link
ebby weans wid needs YEARS of fucking therapy if we even get as muc (2022) twitter link
AND WHEN I'VE NO TAE.. YA BAD FUCKING IGNORANT CAHUNT" (2022) twitter link

@MizLiot tweeted
n their ain language is a bit fucking stupid of him, and mebbe he c (2021) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
o dinnae take the piss - its fucking maradona btw (2020) twitter link
wont - n dont u disrespect a fucking icon oh fitbaw - ffs lol (2020) twitter link
he cemetry fir a visit - how fucking shockin is that btw - get up (2020) twitter link

Doric

@JamesAmcvean tweeted
land as long as ye dinna vote fucking Tory (2021) twitter link

Southern

@jamie_ginger tweeted
in is pish at #fifa13. What a fucking leason o hev gav him the nigh(2012) search twitter

@officialAliRed tweeted
Whit ye gonnae dae? Shoot the fucking virus? ??????? https://t.co/x(2020) search twitter