A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

offensive Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 5.1 1.5 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences1210 1 0 0 1 0
Number of authors10 8 1 1

Occurrences of offensive 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

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
a. How, ah said, Because it's offensive. Aye, said Charlene, It is a on page 116

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
'Real' offensive language is quite okay, on page 36

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Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
smelt afore. I wid say it wis offensive, but that wid be offensive ta on page 21

2 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
door, his get up egregiously offensive tae ma eyes.
1 matches

Bratchpiece, Neil The Wee Man Ft. Leo - Parliamo Glasgow, (YouTube 2014) Central - Glasgow, poetry
Pretentiously yer seekin' an offensive piece of tatter
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Burnett, Colin Cardboard Gangster - Part 1, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central, prose
els fur the auld Brucie charm offensive. Well, she’s only human, eh
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@fairpechtoot tweeted
Sometimes the word isnae even offensive in Scotland: https://t.co/C6Z(2019) search twitter

@rattlecans tweeted
ng the pleb to not be abusive/offensive or any other such thing? http (2022) twitter link
onday, or will that count as "offensive" tae the Royalists tae (2022) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
AyoCaesar Course it’s fuckin offensive - rebellious Scots tae crush (2020) twitter link

Southern

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
The Water Boarde offensive charm on page 10

1 matches

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