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The word 'pickle'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pickleOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus9.12917
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 144.2 11 2
LAL - General Central 13.4 10 7
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.5 1 1
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 pickle in Corpus

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Orkney

Hall, Anja Poosack, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
Noo I'm in a pickle.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
ace. I wis on i wee trainie a pickle o wiks back.(2019)

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
mhoose an farls dinna gan wi' pickle on page 84

1 matches

(South) East Central

Hubbard, Tom Minoritie Status, (Tapsalteerie 2017) Central - Kirkcaldy, poetry
und blattered throu me, and a pickle steps faurer, on page 24

1 matches

Clark, Sara Your Leid, Oor Leid, Awbody's Leid, (Bella Caledonia 2018) Central, blog
haunfu o wirds o antiquity a pickle o Scots fowk had somehou clee
1 matches

West Central

Clark, Thomas A Scots Pairlament?, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Bellshill, blog
the wey oot, whaur there's a pickle o books aside the stocks o ro
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
e time. Weel this wis a richt pickle an tae try an save the ship t on page 58

1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
oun in his hour o need. A wee pickle siller wadnae gang a-miss, mi on page 29
t yersel, Jock Weir, an a wee pickle ither trustit adherents ken I on page 31
ilka quarter day. Sae the wee pickle siller hained frae his cairri on page 33
hauf his plous mind wis a wee pickle fashd that he cuidnae tak his on page 35
aither, wha'd left him a fair pickle o siller hained frae his lang on page 48
Also on pages 55, 56, 69, 79
10 matches

Gilliland, Sam Lallans 83 - Cochise o the Apache Nation, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Central, poetry
Thai are nou bot a pickle left, on page 25

1 matches

General Central

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
Pickle or cure maks deid - the saul on page 34

1 matches

Armstrong, Kate Lallans 58 - Herman Und Dorothea, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
ays, tae cheenge the peeriest pickle, on page 43

1 matches

Waddell, John Lallans 58 - Three Waddins and Fowr Funerals - a monologue, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, prose
. Forbye, he'd left me a guid pickle siller. Anither thing - A'd on page 59

2 matches

Kay, Billy Lallans 78 - Thochts on the bonnie broukit bairn at hame an abroad, (Lallans Magazine 2011) Central, prose
rin the cauld winter wather a pickle month syne, there wes a snaw on page 6

1 matches

Macafee, Caroline Lallans 61 - Glesca dialeck i the modren warld, (Lallans Magazine 2002) Central, prose
ots vocabular there was. Wi a pickle promptin, aulder fowk begoud on page 9

1 matches

Somerville, Shirley-Anne Scots Government Commitments tae Gaelic an Scots an Scots Langages Bill: consultation, (gov.scot 2022 ISBN: 978-1804358313) Central - Holyrood, government
n interdependencies amang the pickle Gaelic commitments. For ensam
A pickle o thaim giein a repone micht
mmunity ower monie years. The pickle aims o the event is for tae h
3 matches

Connelly, Gordon Celebrating Ithers, a letter tae somebody wirth celebratin, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, blog
ablow and pittin doon jist a pickle wirds, images or sentences th
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Holton, Brian An Owresetter’s Tale, (Bella Caledonia 2015) Central - Galashiels, blog
anguage lab A learned masel a pickle German, and in ma saxt year A
1 matches

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