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The word 'peck'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
peckOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.22014
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central 46.4 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 3
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 21.7 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 10.7 8 5
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 41.7 3 2
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 peck 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.

North East Central

Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
vellin on their ain, they wid peck oot his een. If they caucht o on page 27

1 matches

(South) East Central

Townsley, Jane Joe's Cloud an Ither Stuff, (lulu.com 2014 ISBN: 978-1326001612) Central - Perth, prose
iya, Mary." Hughie gave her a peck on the cheek, which he aye di on page 38

1 matches

Jamie, Kathleen Eemis Stane 1 - Pine Wid, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
come peck an pock on page 6

1 matches

Waddell, John Halesome Farin, (iUniverse 2004 ISBN: 978-0595330119) Central - Perth, poetry
An gie the nearest yin a peck.
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
luidy nicht, 'Willie brew'd a peck o maut!', on page 116

1 matches

Glasgow

McQueer, Chris HWFG, (404 Ink 2012 ISBN: 978-1912489107) Central, prose
See if she gets so much as a peck oan the cheek ahm gonnae caus on page 7

1 matches

Geraghty, Martin 378, (TheCommonBreath.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
™ away at ma fuckin’ brain. Peck peck peck.
peck peck.
2 matches

General Central

Robertson, James The Hoose at Pooh's Neuk, (Itchy Coo 2010 ISBN: 978-1845022945) Central, weans
nane o that. It's jist a wee peck o weather.' on page 63

1 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
d that naebody had had even a peck o food for days. They were ga on page 76

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
Peter Piper picked a peck on page 6

2 matches

Liddell, Faith Eemis Stane 1 - Ghaist Yairn, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, poetry
Bit Ah'd nae a peck ae pity left on page 19

1 matches

Robertson, James The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Lassie in the Snaw, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
eat the haill day, no wan wee peck. on page 50

1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth Bairns ootside, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
rdly surprisin there wisnae a peck o fat on ony o us. If we warn
1 matches

Duncan, Robert The Oor-Wulliefication o Scots?, (autumnvoices.co.uk 2022) Central, blog
was Willie that ‘brew’d a peck o’ maut’ (pace the apostr
1 matches

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
last cheerio, wee peck, guid luck on page 55

2 matches

Tindal, Betty Lallans 67 - Two poems by Betty Tindal, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Central - Dumfries, poetry
a wee peck whin they pairt. on page 129

1 matches

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