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Use in varieties of Scots

rude Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words11.5 12.3 9 0 17.4 31 4.4
Number of occurrences3724 6 0 3 3 1
Number of authors29 20 4 3 1 1

Occurrences of rude 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

Clark, Thomas Alice's Adventirs in Wunnerlaun, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010708) Central, prose
n. Bit she didnae like tae be rude: so she pit up wae it as best on page 88

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Clark, Sara Echo and Narcissus, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012702) Central, poetry
Wirrit ye micht come aff rude on page 68

1 matches

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
uever, she didnae want tae be rude: an tholed it as weel as she on page 44

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Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
Howie laughed, a rude snort ae a laugh. on page 1

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Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
t settin' (hey! Ye big gallus rude bugger, ye! Ye've git a clart on page

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Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
that ye were cruel an mean an rude, on page 14

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Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
's nearly sixteen an she does rude stuff wi him an she's always on page 121
said, Nae forecasts the day. Rude, said Charlene, anen she snig on page 169

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Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
Wha made her sic a rude wee bairn, on page 134

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Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Rocks fae their rude altars, scorched an scattered on page 40

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Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
wance, which is jist an awfie rude thing tae dae. on page 50

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Briggs, Susi The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Princess and the Grumphieman, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
scrieved the Prince an awfie rude note which really scunnered h on page 87
lauched the Prince. "You were rude tae me! Ye sneered at things on page 93

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Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
an dinnae stare at fowk It's rude!"
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Thoumire, Elizabeth Makkin a muckle o a mickle, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
er available. It wad be a gey rude awaukenin if it happent again
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Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part one of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
dued. There’s nothin like a rude awakenin fae yer maw tae temp
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Philips, Cally Wha's feart o' the library?, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Turriff, prose
a’ wi’ it. It sounded sae rude. Ah cudnae use the word ‘co
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Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
The man made a rude noise.
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McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
n sum o thaim probably yaises rude wurds on Twitter. This canna
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@g_hibby tweeted
@Denis85457546 Be rude not tae Denis.. :) ?? (2023) twitter link

@mcfarlane_irene tweeted
o Mrs Nae Offense. Onythin wi Rude Bits nivver fails ... Shut Ye(2016) search twitter

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
did not mean to be uppity or rude ... as a linguist I like corr(2020) search twitter

@MizLiot tweeted
d. However, ye weren’t being rude in that instance wi Wass alt (2021) twitter link
learly she never meant tae be rude. But it widna be like ye tae (2021) twitter link

Doric

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Mr Rusty's here, so dinna be rude on page 154

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Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
look on her face: "id's awful rude." on page 65
owever, she didna lek till be rude: so she bore id as weel as sh on page 86

2 matches

@DoricPhrases tweeted
Skittery-dick sound a bittie rude, can you guess which fruit it(2014) search twitter
naughty wifie pointed oot foo rude it keekat! Puir @lyn_golden j(2019) search twitter

@cligeey tweeted
Nae rude songs at Pittodrie the day(2020) search twitter

Shetland

I Hear Dee Shaetlan A primer - v. 1.1, (I Hear Dee 2022) Shetland, prose
er as you can be taen as bein rude. In linguistics dis is caaed on page 55

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Facebook link (Wir Midder Tongue 2016) Shetland
live in Joppa, it's just too rude" - but sho refused tae tell

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
@icklenellierose Whit a rude peerie turd (2017) twitter link

Southern

Halfpenny, Cameron Ahlice's Adveenturs in Wunderlaant, (Evertype 2015 ISBN: 978-1782010876) Southern - Borders, prose
Ahlice gie nippy: "eet's awfy rude." on page 67
she didnae lik tae b' rude: sae she put up wi eet as wei on page 89
ts!" Ahlice sterted in a loud rude voice; but she pult up quick, on page 108

3 matches

Ulster

Ferguson, Roy Rhymes frae Rathfrilan: A Wheen o Poames, (self-published 2022 ISBN: 979-8796193099) Ulster, poetry
In fact they became doonricht rude. on page 36

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