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The word 'rikk'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
rikkOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus4.4143
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 36 11 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central
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 rikk in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
Wis garrin er rikk - visibility "blin" on page 15

3 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
a cutty pipe in his moo, the rikk risin up frae't grey as a goa
oastit oot a black pluffert o rikk an she powked it up tae gar i
in like a wolf's mawe, an the rikk risin up like a curl frae a h
stude chawin their meat, the rikk risin aff their swytin flanks
s in a fine wee brig ower the rikk an the spittin sticks, da hoa
5 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
dowp. Fyles, jist tae see the rikk furl, bairns wad set alicht t
rm wauchts ower the toon like rikk frae a wolf's braith. Ilkie t
2 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Jessie the Jumbo And other Bairn Tales in Scots, (Smashwords 2014) Doric - Aberdeen, weans
oo the colour o rikk. Syne they beeriet their nebs
1 matches

(South) East Central

Fairnie, Robert Scots Tung WITTINS Nummer 167, (self-published 2007) Central, newspaper
Sheena Blackhall's "Dragon Rikk"
DRAGON RIKK is the title o ane o the poem
Dragon Rikk - Poems and Tales in Scoots
3 matches

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