A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

tricky Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words3.6 3.5 7.4 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences127 5 0 0 0 0
Number of authors10 7 3

Occurrences of tricky in Corpus

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Central

McLeish, Alistair Lallans 102 - Eco Cheil, (Lallans Magazine 2023) Central, poetry
Headn owre some tricky knolls, on page 40

1 matches

McPartlin, Moira Before Now : Memoir of a Toerag, (Trilleachan 2021 ISBN: 978-1838360702) Central - Fife, prose
onds oan Tod's wheelbarra wis tricky; it took Joe, Sam an me ages on page 7

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
-ordinar. It'd likely be mair tricky tae stop them fae gaun ower t on page 85

1 matches

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
lly out the loop, which wizni tricky keeping in mind that Evans ta
1 matches

Handy, Robbie Forked Tongues, (Bella Caledonia 2016) Central - Dunfermline, blog
land that is askin itsel some tricky questions. This has been fuel
1 matches

@IshbelMcF tweeted
en her?’ Een ‘her’ wuid be tricky, BSL grammar yaises placement(2018) search twitter

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
@stewartbremner OOOH tricky but the Jock Tamson's bairns (2020) search twitter

Doric

Morrison Murray, Harold Doric, Historic and Humorous, (Peters and Sons 2024) Doric, poetry
Noo Harold is a tricky lad on page 29

1 matches

Rebecca, Casey and Stephen The Baby Dragon, the Wolves and the Lassies, (Scots Hoose 2017) Doric, weans
spoke a wicked carline cried Tricky Trixie appeared oot o naewher
hing fae the tap o the trees. Tricky Trixie was the maist hackit p
a bairn any mair, and killed Tricky Trixie wi a magic diamond. Re
3 matches

@72redz1903 tweeted
art of the Glass appointment. Tricky if a new man comes in (2022) twitter link

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