A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'picking'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pickingOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.31713
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B 131 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 26.6 6 4
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 10.2 4 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 3
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)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of picking in Corpus

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Shetland

@shaetlan_rose tweeted
ilms, sessions with old pals, picking crowberries and walking D(2019)

Mid Northern B

Ritchie, John Fishin in the Findhorn, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
photo with it a didna bother picking it up so a just kneeled down
1 matches

General Northern

@72redz1903 tweeted
ver, I get the rants and fowk picking on their scapegoats. Looked t (2022) twitter link
ae be a lang summer if we’re picking the bones oar signings sic as (2021) twitter link

@cligeey tweeted
nip in the air A richt tattie picking morning(2020)

@fittiecrooners tweeted
Doon picking coal fae the beach this morni(2016)
freezing ootside so nae coal picking(2016)

@JoanHenry7 tweeted
Was that you doon sooth again picking up the wrong jargon? Watch oo (2020) twitter link

(South) East Central

Muir, Glenn Sport!, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Central - Linlithgow, prose
annoyance as he wis shite at picking winners. On yin occasion, whe
1 matches

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
itbaw in the meantime m8 - n picking the parks with the good viewp (2020) twitter link
members oh the public litter picking for them in musselburgh - un (2021) twitter link
nna have one massive headache picking games each weekend - oh happ (2020) twitter link

West Central

Philips, Cally Jings, crivens, help ma Boab, it’s independence!, (McStorytellers.com 2013) Central - Turriff, prose
wi’ Andy an’ Rab wi’oot picking up some o’ their bluster af
1 matches

General Central

@g_hibby tweeted
e KA.. As long as ye both are picking up, and doing ok, then that's (2023) twitter link

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
at Mother Mabel Carter way of picking down pat...I can almost dae i(2020)

@rattlecans tweeted
rrified of extreme right wing picking up support fae the folk the m (2022) twitter link

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
at Edinburgh Uni @devisridhar picking up a wee bit @scotslanguage f(2020)