A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

vile Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.3 6.5 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1413 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors9 8 1

Occurrences of vile in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
time . ..an ower late for the vile West Indiaman that had tae de on page 31
Confined ablow decks in maist vile conditions, the ship set sail on page 39

3 matches

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
odin. Bit Loki wis dauncin wi vile glee. Noo he hid sown bickeri on page 14

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
ole purpose ae tweetin what a vile evil cunt ah um. And when ah on page 54
And the only consolation this vile fact ae life offers is ma kno on page 60
s identity ah see that it's a vile lookin boay who's wearin an e on page 168

3 matches

Robertson, James Melt (Yin), (Kettillonia 2001) Central, poetry
spaein cairds nae dout o some vile witch -
1 matches

Bolland, John Lallans 71 - Line of Sight – excerpt fae a novel in progress, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
int miscreant is perpetrating vile dysfunctions in the warmth an
1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
beguile ye wi his vile insistence
1 matches

Burnett, Colin Boris Johnstone, (colinburnett.co.uk 2021) Central - East Central, prose
ole purpose ae tweetin what a vile evil cunt ah um. And when ah
1 matches

Wallace, Lorna A Scot’s Lament fur her American Fellows (Oan their election of a tangerine gabshite walloper)., (lornalouwriting.wordpress.com 2016) Central - Ayrshire, poetry
A man sae vile?!
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
That Corey is vile! Ah want tae punch his smug f(2020) search twitter

Shetland

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
y WOW. Thats horrible. Whit a vile peerie person (2018) twitter link