A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

scum Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 3.5 3 0 0 0 13.3
Number of occurrences127 2 0 0 0 3
Number of authors11 6 2 3

Occurrences of scum 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

Pennie, Len Poyums, (Canongate Books 2024 ISBN: 978-1805301387) Central - Aberdeen, poetry
Yer scum, ye dirty fuckin rat, I hope on page 34
Ye're scum, ye're trash, ye're oot ma li on page 48

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ibbe...Flemish thought ye wir scum...why Glesga...shouldae been on page 3

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
e it personal. They're fuckin scum. on page 122

1 matches

Goodbrand Saunders, Donald Lallans 67 - Twa Owresettins frae Heine, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, poetry
The leftie atheistic scum on page 55

1 matches

McMillan, Hugh Whit If? Scotland's History as it Micht Hiv Bin, (Luath 2021 ISBN: 9781910022900) Central, poetry
thieves, hoors an ither scum, on page 37

1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
re phones - these people are scum - and yet again amazon data (2020) twitter link

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
is birth-mither's friens, the scum o Meikleburgh, the dealers an
1 matches

@beast_afc tweeted
@Lgarden3 Tout scum(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
"Dissydent scum," on page 61

1 matches

Spence, Laura Tha Thoarn Tree, (Ullans Magazine 2013) Ulster, prose
€™s apern wus floatin oan tha scum o a deep boag-hole. Castin hi
1 matches

@OrangRuth tweeted
ope they thrashed thon Orange scum!(2019) search twitter

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