A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

imbecile Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 0.5 4.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences41 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors3 1 2

Occurrences of imbecile in Corpus

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Central

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
The fuck are ye oan aboot ye imbecile?! Ye fucking dimwit. If ye ha
1 matches

Doric

Robertson, George C. Lallans 87 - Bluid An Banter, (Lallans Magazine 2015) Doric, script
call me Con, ye insubordinate imbecile! By the way, isnae Scotland y on page 40

2 matches

Hutchison, Pat Bulletbroo, (McStorytellers.com 2017) Doric - Banffshire, prose
the mid-wife, “Big heed and imbecile – pit it in a pail!”
1 matches

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