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Use in varieties of Scots

pluck Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.2 4 3 9.9 5.8 0 7.7
Number of occurrences148 2 1 1 0 2
Number of authors13 7 2 1 1 2

Occurrences of pluck 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

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
year. Bess made haggis wi the pluck an the stamack, broth stock f on page 57

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Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
e thrang wi stories o British Pluck thrivin amidst sleekit German on page 23

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Harvey, Tracy Anne Lallans 104 - Stephen, (Lallans Magazine 2024) Central, prose
richt enouch! Eventually, Ah pluck up the smeddum tae leuk in th on page 14

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Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Whuts yir pluck, yir takin thi piss on page 107

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Rennie, Susan The Hoose o Haivers, (Itchy Coo 2002 ISBN: 978-1902927442) Central, weans
onour o the gods is at stake. Pluck for me the brichtest tailfeat
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@jax6754 tweeted
ghtest! Hee hee! One day I'll pluck up courage tae go tae a BIG G(2015) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
mc1066 @kevmac8 @colinlaw1984 pluck pluck lol (2021) twitter link

Doric

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
For abody this, his needed pluck, on page 29

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Byrne, Catherine Alice's Mishanters in e Land o Farlies, (Evertype 2014 ISBN: 978-1782010609) Doric - Caithness, prose
im's wither'd wreath o floors Pluck'd in a far-off land. on page 6

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Orkney

Skea, Bessie Gallows Ha - Earth-bound, (Abersee Press 2022) Orkney, poetry
d mind that cannot sleep must pluck daed haimlock still! on page 24

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
tha wee forget-me-not wid pluck at on page 88

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Ulster

Ulster-Scots Language Society Tha Fower Gospels, (Ullans Press 2016 ISBN: 978-1-905281-25-1) Ulster, prose
ng'rie got, an the' begun tae pluck tha heids aff tha coarn an th on page 9

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@OrangRuth tweeted
@5intheface Whered ye pluck that from?(2020) search twitter

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