A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

cynical Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 3 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences76 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of cynical 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

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
ficit, the bleck-affrontin an cynical diregaird fer oor kintra's cl on page 101

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
st poems, epodes an by-ordnar cynical, witty an bawdily hilarious s on page 101

1 matches

Clark, Sara Indyref 2: Aulder, Wiser, Kinder, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
an her puir wee hubby. It wis cynical, it wis patronisin, it wis se
1 matches

Smith, Jamie Animal Ferm: Chapters I to III, (Mak Forrit 2021) Central, prose
wis for ordinar tae mak some cynical remerk — for instance he wa
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
likit him. Whiles Raggle’s cynical auld ancestors thocht Kamile
1 matches

@RickHJohnston tweeted
t. Mair tae come IMO. Call me cynical! https://t.co/zTWlcbwSNv (2022) twitter link

Doric

@72redz1903 tweeted
issues aroon men and fitba - cynical, negative whilst women’s fit (2022) twitter link