A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'naughty'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
naughtyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.585
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 naughty in Corpus

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Shetland

Watt, Valerie Da secret wirld o Santie’s elves, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
nowball, administrator of the naughty and nice list. How have your
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Naughty Jack Frost leaving me a phall(2019)
are this photo wi ye until ma naughty wifie pointed oot foo rude it(2019)

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
ent aboot it, until ane day a naughty fairy startit gie'n the Fairy on page 97
"ve got permission," said the naughty fairy. Noo this wis a big fat on page 98

3 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
sbehaves she'll end up on the naughty list an there'll be nae prese on page 169

1 matches

Dundee

@d_anderson878 tweeted
'Astana on the naughty step' - braw https://t.co/Jt(2020)