A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'savages'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
savagesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.586
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 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.5 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 26.2 2 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 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 savages in Corpus

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General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
@Chazzbat And stovies made wi savages or corned beef is.??(2019)

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 103, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
were jist the ignorant local savages they representit mispronoonci
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ey really were jist a bunch o savages afore the Empire came alang t on page 20
it wis best fer oorsels, bein savages. The constant repetition o th on page 115

2 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
his thrapple by three drucken savages - an a pack load o guid brai on page 34
y James Douglas an his Hielan savages, while three mair were dragge on page 62

2 matches

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
ack squad - there’s nae sic savages elsewhere alloued tae wear co(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
innae mind ony revolt by the "savages" in the original story either(2020)