A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pics Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.9 2.7 8 0 5.8 0 4.4
Number of occurrences125 5 0 1 0 1
Number of authors7 4 1 1 1

Occurrences of pics in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
while somewan shaws pics o thair newly writ aff caur on page 39

2 matches

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
they tak their pics an then forget on page 36

1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
That’s the high st. Saw auld pics of the abbey too. Totally dif(2020) search twitter

@billykayscot tweeted
tae brak their leivin tomb” Pics here bi ma frien, Norman Chal(2020) search twitter

Doric

@Franwella tweeted
We pics like ‘is, fowk’ll ‘hink am(2020) search twitter
irSimmonsITV jist seen yer FB pics ...... ye might hae ironed ye(2012) search twitter
I am maist imoressed. You tak pics? x(2012) search twitter
aimeeannenaylor far can i see pics?(2012) search twitter
@aimeeannenaylor didna tak pics, sorry x(2013) search twitter

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
uma! ! I have kept my noccers pics on Facebook. Dunna ken if twi(2014) search twitter

Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
in bath, planted garlic, took pics.....only one that came out wa (2021) twitter link