A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pesky Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words0.9 0 1.5 0 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences30 1 0 1 1 0
Number of authors3 1 1 1

Occurrences of pesky in Corpus

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Doric

@Franwella tweeted
eave us alane fir a night you pesky tweeters!?(2012) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
Pesky peerie munchers have been wor(2020) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
ture @Angelinekking Aye, thon pesky Scotti eh!(2020) search twitter