A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

nicked Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.9 5.5 3 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1311 2 0 0 0 0
Number of authors11 9 2

Occurrences of nicked in Corpus

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Central

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
t tae. Kept aw the tools they nicked. He just disnae like us, Mum. on page 1

1 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
t me if ever ah bring onythin nicked intae her hoose she'd take me on page 7

3 matches

McPartlin, John Lallans 68 - Black Staff , (Lallans Magazine 2006) Central, poetry
Caunle-nicked tae flicker oan the waa on page 112

1 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Glasgow Gruffalo's Wean, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303425) Central - Glasgow, weans
"Naw! He's probly nicked oot fur a gruffalo tea." on page 16

1 matches

Bennett, Peter Graftin, (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
Street fashion outlet, as he nicked in an then back oot in under
1 matches

Connor, Bailey A SCOTS HORROR STORY, (Scots Hoose 2021) Central, weans
es free ae their branches and nicked the hair fae folk’s heids.
1 matches

Crawford, Ross At Stake, (productmagazine.co.uk 2022) Central - Stirling, prose
and maybe sum creep wid’ve nicked it by then. But even worse, i
1 matches

@OliphantWullie tweeted
@Del_ivered @thecoastguy Ye nicked that fae George Galloway Del (2022) twitter link

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
fish n make chips wae tatties nicked fae a field lol (2021) twitter link

Doric

McArthur, Kaydi Rich n Peer, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Banff, prose
chased by the bobbies fan he nicked stuff fae the maerkets. Ere w
1 matches

Johnson, Mary Lallans 59 - Furst Time, (Lallans Magazine 2004) Doric - Aberdeenshire, prose
pushes a Safeway brochure - nicked fae his maw - through the le
1 matches

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