A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

insane Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 3.5 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences87 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 5 1

Occurrences of insane 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

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
an. Rollin ower oan his bunk. Insane. An I'm banged up wi him? Nae on page 1

2 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s fur Aldo and the borderline insane wae the wey he's turned oot. on page 36
g dealers, and the clinically insane. Maist ae thum nae doot yaisi on page 169

2 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
ay broke McGregor wis totally insane. He wis ravin an foamin at th on page 42

1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
A’ think A'd go insane.
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
t a prison fur the criminally insane.
1 matches

Doric

@beast_afc tweeted
hieM03 Mcginn on the bench is insane. Look at his stats loon(2020) search twitter