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Use in varieties of Scots

pluck Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.7 3.6 1.5 9.9 5.8 0 8.9
Number of occurrences127 1 1 1 0 2
Number of authors11 6 1 1 1 2

Occurrences of pluck in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
year. Bess made haggis wi the pluck an the stamack, broth stock f on page 57

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Whuts yir pluck, yir takin thi piss on page 107

1 matches

Briggs, Susi Diva, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central - Dumfries and Galloway, poetry
he showed me hoot ae tenderly pluck oot
1 matches

Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
onour o the gods is at stake. Pluck for me the brichtest tailfeat
1 matches

@jax6754 tweeted
ghtest! Hee hee! One day I'll pluck up courage tae go tae a BIG G(2015) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
mc1066 @kevmac8 @colinlaw1984 pluck pluck lol (2021) twitter link

Doric

Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
im's wither'd wreath o floors Pluck'd in a far-off land. on page 6

1 matches

Orkney

Skea, Bessie Gallows Ha - Earth-bound, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
d mind that cannot sleep must pluck daed haimlock still! on page 24

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
tha wee forget-me-not wid pluck at on page 88

1 matches

Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ng'rie got, an the' begun tae pluck tha heids aff tha coarn an th on page 9

1 matches

@OrangRuth tweeted
@5intheface Whered ye pluck that from?(2020) search twitter

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