A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'criminals'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
criminalsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7128
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 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.8 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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 criminals in Corpus

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Aberdeen

Hardie, Buff Dod 'n' Bunty, (Evening Express 2000) Doric, newspaper
iminal. It's oot the door wi' criminals. It's the real hard men that
1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
s in thae days, sterted peyin criminals or desperados tae dae the dir
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ORDINARY CRIMINALS on page 115
water. Aye, we're aw ordinary criminals in this place that's the yin on page 123
nburgh's maist prolific petty criminals. A vast variety ae shoaplifte on page 169

3 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
lead tae the discovery o the criminals. This spoke o some kind o cri on page 104

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
, you'll make my whole family criminals along with me...”
“There ayweys undesirables, criminals - " he gied the man a knawin
2 matches

Burnett, Colin Death Becomes Him - Part 2, (ABCTales.com 2022) Central, prose
wannabe gangsters. The petty criminals and drug dealers who form the
1 matches

General Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
There's them that mind criminals bidin in courts, on page 21

1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
the crimes, or tae excuse the criminals, or a shrug o the shooders an
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
atically see aa black folk as criminals. If that's yer view, ye shudn(2020)

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