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The word 'racism'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
racismOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.33117
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 1
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 22.2 5 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.4 1 1
WCE - West Central 13.3 3 3
DUN - Dundee 63.7 6 1
EDN - Edinburgh 12.4 2 1
GLA - Glasgow 5.1 1 1
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 10.5 8 5
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
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 racism in Corpus

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Shetland

@tattooedselkie tweeted
in tae yun length tae justify racism!(2021)
e up tae the fact that casual racism exists.(2021)

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
tering mince that this is nae racism (2022) twitter link
@JimSpenceDundee C’mon, racism, sexism etc has been found th (2022) twitter link
v @ScottishFA @spfl Disagree, racism has never been mair ‘popular (2022) twitter link
and the parallels in terms of racism etc are stark. But, my point (2020) twitter link
to. Scotland has a problem wi racism, of course it dis- but George (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 100, (self-published 2002) Central, newspaper
xecutive o 'institutionalised racism' agin Gaelic an Gaelic speake
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
Pakistani. It wisnae exactly racism as such, but it wis kindae: m on page 99

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Racism, Fascism, Cancer, disease, on page 36

1 matches

Hodgart, John Scots Language Act: Oor weans hae richt tae see mither tung respectit, (The National 2021) Central - North Ayrshire, newspaper
y an prejudice, or linguistic racism tae be mair blunt aboot it, b
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
esbyterian Kirk's role in the racism directit agin Jrish immigrant on page 18
der intae whit is effectively racism wi their repetition o nories on page 47
sh is aye seen as naethin but racism. But Alasdair wis ontae somet on page 73
norie o multi-culturalism, an racism wis unleasht. An sae the deba on page 112
Sic blatant, an daily-day, racism in the media is commonplace d on page 115

6 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
l. She recoilt fae the hint o racism in the thocht. Bit it wis tha
ad aa the hallmarks o Chinese racism. Amangst thairsels the Chines
2 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter Time, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
isters; just the usual casual racism an xenophobia, spewed oot in
1 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
a different skin colour, sae racism never liftit its ugsome heid, on page 23

1 matches

General Central

Gillon, Karen Report on Inquiry intil the role o, (Education, Culture an Sport Comatee 2003) Central, government
bbe personal or institutional racism skowkin in aboot the back o
1 matches

Seth-Smith, Niki Chynge o sum kind is comin either wey, but a vote tae leave wad empooer Europe’s faur richt, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
e leash tae stoke the fires o racism aye furder, an we’ve seen w
1 matches

@Chazzbat tweeted
Ah cannae wrap ma heid aroond racism at aa. Ither cultures enrich (2020)
dinnae unnerstaun this sort o racism. Thur's clearly a section o s(2020)
Fuckinell. As if COVID-19 an racism wurnae enough tae contend wi((2020)
r treatit in western society. Racism is rife, but we refuse tae ac(2020)

@DABArbuckle tweeted
eact wae the same vitriol and racism that Scotland received.(2020)

@weenell3 tweeted
2 @AberdeenFC Players showing Racism the Red Card pity you cannae (2022) twitter link

South East (Borders)

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
s expressing “SEXISM” and “RACISM” yet we huv nae see “A(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
here. Owre here we dinnae cry racism fascism. Cherrybye racist. (2020) twitter link