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Use in varieties of Scots

naive Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 4.6 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences109 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of naive in Corpus

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Central

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
A naive notion ae love as an ocean, a on page 55

1 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
he part in ma jaicket and wis naive enough tae hink ah'd mair mag on page xvii
Ah guess Mum and Dad wur naive tae think people who'd never on page 32

2 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ty for you - you’re not so naive about these things as I am -
juist hae tae leuk efter this naive gomeril as weill’s hersel.
she sayed, thinkin it wis gey naive o him tae be tellin her this
or wisna shair. She cudna be naive eneuch, or desperate eneuch,
4 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
OutOfScot Ye'd hae to be AWFY naive tae think SNP hav'nae been in (2022) twitter link

@LowEndJardo tweeted
Am a being naive or could he no just have leat (2021) twitter link

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
part of his flock, And being naive, bleathing BAA BAA!. Nae ta..(2020) search twitter