Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pict	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	5.7	4	1.5	0	0	0	19.4
Number of occurrences	19	8	1	0	0	0	4
Number of authors	9	4	1				2

Occurrences of pict in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

Central

Smith, Donald Saut and Bluid: A Scotsaga, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250341) Central, prose
s. Bit Sigurd didna trust the Pict sae he tuik eichtie men, twa on page 14

2 matches

Montador, Eileen Shriek of the Maws, (Goblinshead 2003 ISBN: 978-1899874439) Central - Fife, prose
' ve can see some richt bonny pict'res as weel. The bairns'll la on page 6
warked there, an' look at the pict'res in them. They showed ye a on page 10
wi wool while He wis oot? Ony pict'res ye see o' Him, He's jist on page 12

4 matches

Douglas, Ashley Whae Were the Pechts, (Dig It Scotland 2023) Central, prose
‘Pict’ comes fae the Roman nemme
1 matches

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
rianR199 @19Mcculley Shes a pict tae ???(2020) search twitter

Doric

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
elt wi a chiel on his back. A Pict, fowk said he wis. Foo it cam
1 matches

Ulster

Robinson, Philip Oul Licht, (Ullans Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1905281305) Ulster - Larne, poetry
In pictér-hoose, boys! bak-raa sate! on page 2
Brave pictér-maps ye hae iz drew, on page 21

2 matches

Ulster Scots Agency Ulster Scots Census, (census.gov.uk 2021) Ulster, government
t iverie 10 yeir an gies us a pictèr o aa tha fowk an hoosehaud
t iverie 10 yeir an gies us a pictèr o aa tha fowk an hoosehaud
2 matches