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The word 'psycho'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
psychoOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 5.4 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 1
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 psycho 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.

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
ats, Davie Robertson gan full psycho and getting sent aff in first (2020) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
Mackenzie @joewhimster Mair a psycho if ye go doon his timeline(2020)

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
eer advice fae a mace-wieldin psycho while ah watch a hoarse decid on page 20
faced wae the steroid induced psycho that he is. Aw dressed in his on page 63

2 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
ea and she could be quite the psycho at times. Luckily for us, nae
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
but noo she might as well huv PSYCHO STALEER tattooed on her foreh on page 169

1 matches

Glasgow

@johnstone_shane tweeted
@molach95 @Krista_DC Psycho-raag that's it! Will try an f (2020) twitter link

General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
y, solitude and hiding from a psycho should help ?? if that bill g(2020)
ad enough im labelled a fking psycho without your help.(2020)