A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pic'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
picOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus6.62118
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 23.2 4 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
DOR - General Northern 31 7 7
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 2.7 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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) 32.8 1 1
GUL - General Ulster 42.2 3 2
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of pic in Corpus

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Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
s on today's #walkies. If dis pic wis "scratch n listen" you'd (2020)
I made a peerie seabird pic to celebrate valentines day r(2019)
Love dis pic o some o my fave birds. https(2017)

@RedValkyrie84 tweeted
@SquidGaming heres a pic o rufus mcfluffybutt to cheer (2018) twitter link

Mid Northern A

@FaeFoggie tweeted
bin watterin efter seein iss pic i ither day. A splash o i mid(2019)

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
e, aye. The loon/Quine in the pic wid visit the gairden rarely, (2020) twitter link

General Northern

@Doric_Bananaman tweeted
sotter wi' a thae pies in yer pic mannie. Pittodrie Pie per chu(2015)

@72redz1903 tweeted
Had the pic on ma bedroom wah- only faile (2020) twitter link

@beast_afc tweeted
id tae zoom in on yer profile pic. Thought that toggle wiz a bi(2020)

@Franwella tweeted
@aimeeannenaylor ye got a pic tae send?(2012)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
nae the same "lassie" in the pic. Will be asking fer yer bunk (2018)

@glenlivetloon tweeted
, ye fair get aboot! Love the pic.(2014)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
? I didna ken how to upload a pic.(2020)

West Central

Shoor Caan, Angus Afore we hud ri telly, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Saltcoats, prose
orcelain cottage ashtrays an' pic't wan up tae huv a swatch et
1 matches

General Central

@Chazzbat tweeted
in forrit tae the new profile pic.(2020)

@PeoplesPoet77 tweeted
put the washing oan hen, the pic I just tweeted is me lookin f (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
llykayscot @yyesscotland Braw pic Billy, David and Sandie are b(2020)

East Antrim (Larne)

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
As if pic throu tha mang'l. on page 47

1 matches

General Ulster

@HurchinHome tweeted
Thought I'd add a new profile pic of a Coleraine watergaw wi a (2020)

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
!! (Serious camo in the first pic and Aunt Ella's hurchin in th (2021) twitter link