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The word 'criticism'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
criticismOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.52114
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 3.3 1 1
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.6 3 1
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow 13.7 3 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 8 6 4
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 criticism 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.

Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine The future of Scots, (https://www.opendemocracy.net/ 2015) Orkney, prose
istent uissed fir journalism, criticism, public relaetions, or govren
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Facebook link ( 2012) Doric - Buckie
the attraction? This is NAE a criticism. Jist an openin tae a convers

Aberdeen

Uri, Antonia Naewey tae bide, (Mak Forrit 2018) Doric - Aberdeen, blog
evement, there haes been some criticism o the event, the name o whilk
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
gainst his nature amid recent criticism (2020) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
in, you hiv assumed ma honest criticism is just cos it's a Quine. I g(2020)

(South) East Central

Calder, Bob Lallans 67 - Reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central, prose
uisfu, duisna exempt them fae criticism. The punnin title o Alastair on page 95

3 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
tae work on yir constructive criticism. Linsey jist sat their wi her on page 169

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
his been comin in fer a lot o criticism fae those o us argiein fer Sc on page 47
erra least exaggerated - but criticism o oniethin or oniebuddie Engl on page 73

2 matches

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Ma Heroes o' Sport, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
anything more in the way o’ criticism than “He’ll be a wee bit
1 matches

Glasgow

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
Ah struggle tae fink o a criticism. He's the teacher's pet. Ah'm on page 7

2 matches

Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
and fordelt for tae kep onie criticism, and at the Kirk door o the n
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Ah struggle tae fink o a criticism. He's the teacher's pet. Ah'm on page 23
hrough this,' he wrote as his criticism. 'There were masses of dialog on page 25

2 matches

Milne, W. S. Lallans 78 - Mary, Queen o Scotland, Pairt I, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, script
I'll brook nae mair criticism. on page 32

1 matches

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
for tae socialise an sing/hae criticism o writin (gin I cud uise mair(2020)
s is true and entirely beyond criticism and the same for Charlie give(2020)

@bigandymccoll tweeted
lls - buys off ANY potential criticism or dissent tae nip it in the (2022) twitter link

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