A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

insults Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 5.7 3 19.9 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences1811 2 2 0 0 3
Number of authors14 10 2 1 1

Occurrences of insults 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

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
rejected withoot turnin tae insults and pretendin they niver actu on page 1

1 matches

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Unkind words an insults seem tae ripple fae within. on page 21

1 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
Whit dae I care aboot her insults, on page 33

1 matches

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 168, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Insults!
yaised tae tholin thae kinna insults frae a succession o British a
2 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
egin to consider such ghastly insults to be assigned to yer auld pa
1 matches

Clark, Thomas Till Houletgless an the Soond o Money, (The Scores 2018) Central, prose
e thing. He widna swallae ony insults, but maist ither ongauns he
1 matches

Kay, Billy Time for Reflection, (archive2021.parliament.scot 2022) Central, government
it is a leid hoatchin wi gleg insults — “glaikit”, “gawkit
1 matches

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
hop in Cockburn Street. Scots insults aye mak fowk smile. https://t(2016) search twitter

@OliphantWullie tweeted
Westminster. Nae need fir wee insults btw. Keep it civil. (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
@cathedral_sport personal insults both ways a think lol (2021) twitter link

Doric

Gray, Kathleen Tales Fae The Doric Side - The Ootlin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
Ellen wis sick o the insults an insinuations. The mimes an on page 58

1 matches

@glenlivetloon tweeted
ive a reasoned argument then! Insults say one thing... nae 2 brain (2019) search twitter

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Coman here wi aal yer insults. This hovel here is mine on page 35
He still insults the minister and drives poor on page 56

2 matches

Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
"gype". We hae a brave lot o insults! (2014) twitter link
Mak yer ain #UlsterScots insults wi my generator! @BBCnireland (2015) twitter link
We hae a quare wheen o insults in #UlsterScots! @UlsterFryNI (2016) twitter link