Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Concordance

The word 'picks'

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Use in varieties of Scots

picks	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	8.7	29	18
ORK - Orkney	29.8	3	2
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	162.8	1	1
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern	13.3	3	2
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	2.6	1	1
WCE - West Central	13.3	3	1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow	55.3	11	4
AYR - Ayrshire	10.7	1	1
LAL - General Central	7.9	6	6
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 picks 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.

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
Picks up stinkan socks and draars, on page 23

1 matches

Giles, Harry Josephine Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel, (Picador 2021 ISBN: 978-1529066609) Orkney, poetry
the screen, an peedie tigs an picks on page 17
, shruggan. Noor, distracted, picks a slaet fer the docket. _ "Fo on page 115

2 matches

South Northern

Lawrie, Alistair Caw, (northwordsnow.co.uk 2020) Doric - Stonehaven, prose
ittered. The other bastard he picks up the axe an puts it atween
1 matches

General Northern

McDonald, John Mou Her Name, (Evertype 2018 ISBN: 978-1782012054) Doric, poetry
Five Picks o Rice on page 3

1 matches

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
Helena Digby picks up i'rice frae her curry 'at on page 115
i'spurgie picks ma een on page 166

2 matches

(South) East Central

Letford, William This Is It, (Scottish Poetry Library 2016) Central - Stirling, poetry
busker picks up eez guitar an plugs in eez
1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
Dressed in his semmit he picks his winners, on page 87
icht fae wrang as easy as she picks oot whit on page 121
o character is he no? An aye picks his friens richt cannily. on page 125

3 matches

Glasgow

Armstrong, Graeme Young Team, (Picador 2020 ISBN: 978-1529017366) Central, prose
and slowly goes tae the bag n picks it up. He fishes in his jakit on page 15

1 matches

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
w the fiddly bits, plectrums, picks, capo, couple ay Rab's hair b on page 3

7 matches

Durie, Nick Votin Seestems, (peffers50.freeserve 2003) Central - Glasgow, prose
juist the tae chyce tho. Thai picks whit bodie thai wants tae be
1 matches

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part One), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ear as he lights the joint an picks up the bottle ay wine alang w
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Rude Awakenings (Part two of two), (ABCTales.com 2020) Central - Glasgow, prose
He bends oer an picks up the clipboard, gien it tha
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
e tak ower gif the mason-wark picks up... An aye mind that John a on page 77

1 matches

General Central

Robertson, James Naebody'd Seen Him, (Scottish Book Trust 2018) Central, prose
ne when he does. Sometimes he picks up speed and swings himself r on page 14

1 matches

MacKinnon, Ann Lallans 70 - Five Poems, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, poetry
and picks flees fae aneath his wing. on page 61

1 matches

Tollick, Margaret Tapsalteerie and Ither Tales, (Windfall Books 2008 ISBN: 978-0955726422) Central, weans
If Peter Piper picks a peck on page 6

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
as the ref picks up the baw on page 4

1 matches

Gillespie, Alan Mon the Rovers, (Scottish Book Trust 2021) Central, prose
rying tae waste time so Sinky picks him up and chucks him intay t
1 matches

@billykayscot tweeted
sunlicht the day. Luik hoo it picks oot the streitch o the auld B(2020)