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The word 'pernickety'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pernicketyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.71211
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 6.5 2 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 23.7 2 1
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
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 pernickety in Corpus

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Orkney

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
pernickety, dights wi sterile pads tae s on page 79

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Shetland

MacInnes, Morag Archipelagos : Poems from Writing the North, (University of Edinburgh 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7486-9755-7) Shetland, poetry
pernickety, hid'll no gie up on page 23

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Watt, Valerie Meenie’s Viking spoon, (Shetland Times 2010) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
“Ee thing dey wir very pernickety aboot wis keeping dir lugs cl
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
it's nae jist aat ye're ower pernickety - ye've lined up the affest on page 86

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Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
-unit guttin yairds. He wis a pernickety kinno cheil, dentie in his ma
1 matches

Aberdeen

Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 57 - Mac, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Doric, prose
traikit; or he micht hae been Pernickety, for nae caat wis iver mair f on page 27

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Kynoch, Douglas Lallans 82 - Troke, (Lallans Magazine 2013) Doric, prose
airden gettin oot o haan; the pernickety wyes o weemen; an the waefu s on page 88

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General Northern

McClure, Derrick J. Throwe the Keekin-Gless an Fit Ailice Funn There, (Evertype 2021 ISBN: 978-1782012559) Doric, prose
er sister, fa likit bein rael pernickety, hed thraipit at they cwidna on page 13

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Smith, Alex A Sair Fecht, (self-published 2003) Doric, prose
Noo this wifie wis affa pernickety an, Jonsar kent she widnae ha
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Ayrshire

Begg, James A. Alison's Jants in Ferlieland, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010845) Central, prose
," said the Hatter, a wee bit pernickety: "it's ave easier tae tak mai on page 44

1 matches

General Central

Rennie, Susan Kat an Doug on Planet Perjink, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927565) Central, weans
l o Trig Square tae dicht, an Pernickety Crescent. Forby, the Provost on page 9

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McDermid, Val The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - The Gowd Breeks, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central, weans
e gowd roond the edge, wi sic pernickety quirks? And thae braw wee pea on page 63

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