A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

idiocy Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words1.2 1.5 0 0 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences43 0 0 0 1 0
Number of authors4 3 1

Occurrences of idiocy in Corpus

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Central

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ht, an aw the other nights a' idiocy. It's barkin, but somet'n abo on page 3

1 matches

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
privations an’ pure bluidy idiocy o’ the campaign flashed thr
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
@jackiepatie Me an aa. Fuckin idiocy. But Trump's an eejit, so it'(2020) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
James. The phrases 'militant idiocy' and 'Rangers/Celtic game' ne(2020) search twitter