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The word 'crimes'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
crimesOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.31411
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 10.1 4 3
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of crimes in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
on guilty o the maist serious crimes wis sentenced tae "twinnin".
an capital punishment. Lesser crimes war dealt wi bi "chippin". A
2 matches

General Northern

Benzie, Lesley Tales Fae The Doric Side - Vadim Shysimarin, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
that he tells the war crimes trial on page 64

1 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair The Body Snatchers, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
Royal Mile. The twa chiels’ crimes, an the involvement o Knox, i
1 matches

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
pe that it wid stoap the hate crimes against the poor cunts who ke on page 187

1 matches

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
ti kill. Haud forrit: lesser crimes hae led on page 23

2 matches

Muir, Glenn Pet-gilante, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Linlithgow, prose
meted oot tended tae fit the crimes. That wis doon tae Big Brenda
1 matches

General Central

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
It was his ain crimes, on page 31

1 matches

Douglas, Ashley Eemis Stane 1 - Editorial: Scots Belangs Tae Awbodie And Naebodie, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
fur monstrous state-uphaudit crimes o indescrievable violence agi on page 4

1 matches

Connor, Charles P. Lallans 82 - Nae Guid Ettle, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, prose
convickit o fell scunnersome crimes like rape ir interferin wi ba on page 17

1 matches

Donati, Colin Universal Declaration o Human Richts, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Central, government
nonpolitical crimes or o acts contrair til the pu
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The USA: Whit happened tae the Guid Guys?, (The Sair Fecht 2014) Central, blog
st, short-sichted weys, an wi crimes that wad shame onie nation, t
nerstaundin the context o the crimes, or tae excuse the criminals,
2 matches

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