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The word 'weirdo'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
weirdoOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.1209
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
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 4.4 1 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 5.1 2 1
WCE - West Central 36.8 8 2
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 22.8 5 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
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 weirdo in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ae you - aat disna mak her a weirdo." on page 34

1 matches

General Northern

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
yewis greets fin she's happy. Weirdo. on page 91

1 matches

(South) East Central

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (Medium 2021) Central - Stirling, prose
leave it lying there fur some weirdo tae nab, could ah?
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
t leave it lyin there fur sum weirdo tae nab, can ah?
1 matches

West Central

Percy, Ely Duck Feet, (Monstrous Regiment 2021 ISBN: 978-1916117921) Central - Renfrew, prose
ye, she said, Well he's a big weirdo then. Ah thought yi liked him on page 110
e belonged in a field - an a weirdo haircut that wis long on wan on page 126
Charlene Clark wis a bit of a weirdo. Ah wantet tae slap her fur s on page 153
her heid, noddin away tae her weirdo goth tunes, whilst flickin th on page 169

6 matches

Percy, Ely The Family Situation, (The Interpreters House.org 2020) Central, prose
st think yir girlfriend’s a weirdo enda story.
1 matches

@MizLiot tweeted
each time, an treated like a weirdo when I kept trying to say no. (2021) twitter link

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
no! Ye hink ahm some kind ae weirdo?' on page 24
an walked away. 'I he guy's a weirdo. Pure intae aw this mad Russi on page 61

2 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
up in some gemme or buik, wee weirdo that I wis. on page 3

2 matches

McQueer, Chris Hings - Short Stories 'n That, (404 Ink 2017 ISBN: 978-0995623866) Central - Glesga, prose
bag ae sea creatures. Fuckin weirdo. Anyway, time tae try wan ae on page 2

1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Harry. Ah cannae look like a weirdo. on page 51

1 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
aye, he is a bit mair than a weirdo ????? I only read the main tw(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
Ah kent ye wir a weirdo. on page 103

1 matches

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