A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

picket Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words7.8 3.1 28.6 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences256 19 0 0 0 0
Number of authors5 3 2

Occurrences of picket in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
John stuid picket on the brae abune Derval, wi on page 35
the meenister as a braithless picket frae the easy side cam rinnin on page 36

2 matches

Hubbard, Tom The Flechitorium, (Grace Note 2017 ISBN: 9781907676932) Central - East Central, poetry
mselves, upby, on marches and picket-lines? on page 60

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Aa ah did wis staun oan a picket line. on page 64
Ma man wis gaun oot oan the picket line. on page 70
ories ah could tell; Orgreave picket line, on page 75

3 matches

Doric

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
, still hing ower, gid oot an picket sum grass an stuff, an fin a on page 31
," an "'Boy's a deer'' fin we picket abudy up eit weis eis warm ei on page 50
's cure't aat a thocht. So we picket abudy up an heeded fur thi Br on page 51
n take is haim tae Boddim. We picket awa fur twa or thri wick's ei on page 55
Shi weis aye picket up, an left on er reef, on page 69

5 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
PICKET *** on page 196

14 matches

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