Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'idiocy'

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Use in varieties of Scots

idiocy	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	1.2	4	4
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow	5.1	1	1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	1.3	1	1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)	13.9	1	1
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 idiocy 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.

Edinburgh

McKillop, Roger Uprisin' an' Doonfa', (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Edinburgh, poetry
privations an’ pure bluidy idiocy o’ the campaign flashed thr
1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
ht, an aw the other nights a' idiocy. It's barkin, but somet'n abo on page 3

1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
@jackiepatie Me an aa. Fuckin idiocy. But Trump's an eejit, so it'(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
James. The phrases 'militant idiocy' and 'Rangers/Celtic game' ne(2020)