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The word 'savage'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
savageOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.41813
ORK - Orkney
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 162.8 1 1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 22.2 5 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central 4.4 1 1
DUN - Dundee 21.2 2 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim) 31.4 1 1
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards) 35.7 1 1
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of savage in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ast, The Brazilian: a helluva savage kinna haircut at wisna oan ye on page 82

1 matches

South Northern

Vettese, Raymond Lallans 73 - reviews, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Doric - Montrose, prose
Silver Sea, Robin Hull, Steve Savage, London and Edinburgh, 2007, on page 124

1 matches

General Northern

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
as usual as seen as she sa ma savage she winted bit. Story o ma li(2020)
til ye've tried. Better than savage meat in yer stovies.??(2019)
aeFoggie Looks affa fine. Twa savage an twa bacon minimum should b(2019)
hree is nae bad. Nivver ivver savage meat. It's the law.??(2019)
oggie Fash supper wi a smoked savage chaser. Mock chop jist makes (2020)

(South) East Central

Forrest, Liam Hittin the Toon, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Dunfermline, prose
in awbdy’s een, blindin the savage - like folk who wurr waitin
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
An pit an end tae oor savage game, on page 92

1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart The Wey Forrit, (Luath 2017 ISBN: 978-1912147014) Central, prose
didnae mak oniebuddie stupit, Savage or ignorant. on page 98

1 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
e as a bluidthirsty, murderin savage an there are them that'll tel on page 116

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
aist were nou awa back in the savage land whence they came. He cui on page 35

1 matches

General Central

Mackintosh, Henrietta A Tale o Twa Leids: Gaelic, Scots an smoorin wi luve, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
s the ‘ither’ or ‘noble savage’, an no seein thaim as real
1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
A Boy Or Are You A Girl?, by Savage and F(2020)

South East (Borders)

Thompson, James My Borderlands, (Richardson and Son Printers 2023) Southern - Hawick, poetry
Winter's savage frozen blight on page 38

1 matches

Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)

Morrison-Smyth, Anne Alice's Carrants in Wunnerlan, (Evertype 2013 ISBN: 978-1-78201-011-1) Ulster - Ballymoney, prose
e stye wi it es tae go wi the savage Queen: so shae waitet. on page 93

1 matches

Peninsular Ulster (Ards)

Gibson, Darren Cannae Thole Ye!, (lowcountrylad.blogspot.com/ 2014) Ulster - Ards, blog
writer an poet George Francis Savage Armstrong caad, ‘A Cannae T
1 matches

General Ulster

@the_gellick tweeted
llads of Down" (1901) by G.F. Savage-Armstrong. A Kirk elder danne (2018) twitter link