A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

devious Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.5 2 0 0 0 0 3.9
Number of occurrences54 0 0 0 0 1
Number of authors5 4 1

Occurrences of devious in Corpus

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Central

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
Always hus a skinheed n a wee devious look aboot him. He's harmless on page 7

1 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 68 - The Fower Jyners o the Apocalypse, (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, prose
ed got rid o him bi means o a devious ploy. on page 26

1 matches

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
ie wee stunted bodie that wis devious in the wey he traited fowk, t on page 23

1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
Rapp is a devious wee shite, but Ah dinnae thin(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Logan, Liam Thon Ulster Scots Book, (Galdanagh 2014 ISBN: 978-0992881405) Ulster - Dunloy, prose
bak dorrs, a good man without devious motives. A wee bit o a drooth on page 32

1 matches

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