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Use in varieties of Scots

tickle Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4 5.5 1.5 9.9 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1311 1 1 0 0 0
Number of authors11 9 1 1

Occurrences of tickle 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

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
se. Aw the hairs oan his body tickle unner his claes. Inside his b on page 1

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Luath 2022 ISBN: 978-1804250242) Central, prose
Murphy said his piece. Ah'd a tickle in ma throat and ah wis tryin on page 7

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Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
You'll hink this wis a fuckin tickle." on page 146

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Grae, Emma The Tongue She Speaks, (Scots Language Centre 2021) Central, poetry
Martin says his piece. Ah've tickle in ma throat, and ah'm tryin on page 14

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Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
then he'd tickle wi his gentle mou on page 38

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Fitt, Matthew Hercules: Bampots and Heroes, (Itchy Coo 2005) Central - Dundee, weans
as skite aff him. Swords jist tickle his belly. Ye're sendin me ta on page 6

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Macafee, Caroline Lallans 57 - Lea the leid alane, (Lallans Magazine 2000) Central, prose
dy bear, One step, two steps, Tickle you under there!" a wersh and on page 56

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Thoumire, Elizabeth Kintrae livin, (Mak Forrit 2019) Central - Edinburgh, blog
by he wad gie it a douce wee tickle afore wheechin it up ontae th
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Grae, Emma Dancin wi the Rhona, (unbound.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
There’s still a tickle at the back o ma throat, and
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@billykayscot tweeted
irm an this unique coffee tae tickle the tastebuds. Affie guid. ht(2020) search twitter

@kennethbryce184 tweeted
keep ma bluebell tammy oan n tickle ma isobel wae the pom pom in (2020) twitter link

Doric

Leslie, Deborah Tales Fae The Doric Side - Mabel, (Doric Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-8384939-6-7) Doric, prose
mes oot aneth the blunket. Ah tickle her palm an her fingirs curl on page 97

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Orkney

Hall, Anja Poosack, (Orkney Heritage Society 2010) Orkney, poetry
But then I feel a tickle
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