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Use in varieties of Scots

slick Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.1 2.6 3 9.9 11.6 0 0
Number of occurrences105 2 1 2 0 0
Number of authors8 4 2 1 1

Occurrences of slick 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

Cohen, Susan Wee Scottish Book o' Pure Stoatin' Joy, (The Wee Book Company 2019 ISBN: 978-1916491588) Central, prose
DS AN! THE TORREY CLASSICS - SLICK, ROCKY SAM AND SUNDANCE - DA on page

1 matches

Bryden, Hugh Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central - Dumfries, poetry
slick o his workshop on page 96

1 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
O eis really dead slick an hip even ulthough on page 45
but it's really dead slick on page 90

2 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
the thick heather an bracken slick wae mornin dew. It sucks an s
1 matches

Doric

Diansangu, Mae Tales Fae The Doric Side - Exodus20:3, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, poetry
slick wi that auld testament kinda on page 66

1 matches

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
Thi slick's float on, Mile aifter mile, on page 35

1 matches

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
The oil slick fae the Royal Oak lies, grey, on page 48

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie A skoit trowe da shops, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
p da closs an intae Klaize. A slick an cool spellin o da wird “
laes”. But Meenie is neider slick nor cool, bliss her. Hipster
2 matches

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