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The word 'nicky'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
nickyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.897
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 6.6 5 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of nicky in Corpus

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General Northern

@beast_afc tweeted
ay a load o oor auld players. Nicky Clarke is ma focus(2020)

@Manuforti1968 tweeted
aboot "E' Fairmer"? A pair o nicky tams fir protection, an a uti(2019)

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
peaker, wha's hijacked their 'Nicky-Tams', on page 152

1 matches

Edinburgh

Higgs, Jo The tale of how Evan Evans scrapped wi Evan Nichols, (berfrois 2022) Central - Edinburgh, prose
, but yer a reasonable felly, Nicky boy’, Evans continued. As a
1 matches

General Central

@jax6754 tweeted
MLewin @socceraid Lookin guid Nicky! Hae a guid game ROW!xxx(2014)
is Scottish lass is behind ya Nicky! Hugggggggssssss! xxx(2016)

@rosa_alba_macd tweeted
mair fowk. I staun wi ye a - Nicky B is bein Adair ambassador fi(2020)

@Chazzbat tweeted
bloke's like Daniel. Treatin Nicky like she's a helpless victim (2020)
ops hae nae reason tae hassle Nicky. Her punter is the wan wha sh(2020)