A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

picking Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.3 4.1 10.6 0 5.8 10.3 0
Number of occurrences178 7 0 1 1 0
Number of authors13 6 5 1 1

Occurrences of picking in Corpus

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Central

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
annoyance as he wis shite at picking winners. On yin occasion, whe
1 matches

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
wi’ Andy an’ Rab wi’oot picking up some o’ their bluster af
1 matches

@g_hibby tweeted
e KA.. As long as ye both are picking up, and doing ok, then that's (2023) twitter link

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
at Mother Mabel Carter way of picking down pat...I can almost dae i(2020) search twitter

@rattlecans tweeted
rrified of extreme right wing picking up support fae the folk the m (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
itbaw in the meantime m8 - n picking the parks with the good viewp (2020) twitter link
members oh the public litter picking for them in musselburgh - un (2021) twitter link
nna have one massive headache picking games each weekend - oh happ (2020) twitter link

Doric

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
photo with it a didna bother picking it up so a just kneeled down
1 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
ver, I get the rants and fowk picking on their scapegoats. Looked t (2022) twitter link
ae be a lang summer if we’re picking the bones oar signings sic as (2021) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
nip in the air A richt tattie picking morning(2020) search twitter

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Doon picking coal fae the beach this morni(2016) search twitter
freezing ootside so nae coal picking(2016) search twitter

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
Was that you doon sooth again picking up the wrong jargon? Watch oo (2020) twitter link

Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
ilms, sessions with old pals, picking crowberries and walking D(2019) search twitter

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
at Edinburgh Uni @devisridhar picking up a wee bit @scotslanguage f(2020) search twitter