A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

picky Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.4 3 0 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences86 0 1 0 1 0
Number of authors6 4 1 1

Occurrences of picky in Corpus

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Central

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
jyne the faimily. 1 wis a gey picky eater as a wean, sae ma ploy on page 23

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
u can tump it. You're far too picky, you want hings tae be imposs on page 3

1 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Totally Princessy Princess, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central - Glasgow, weans
cess - especially tae a dead picky posh Prince. on page 8
y Princess story about a pure picky on page 14
Princessy Princesses ... and Picky Princes. on page 15

3 matches

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ve bairns you can't always be picky to them foods, food, ye can i(2020) search twitter

Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
No sign o picky ternos at The Castles yit bit on page 16

1 matches

Southern

@StuartPoet tweeted
lynmitchell Thon fish are gey picky, mind(2020) search twitter