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The word 'pics'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
picsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6127
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 5.8 1 1
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 22.2 5 1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 2.6 1 1
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 10 2 1
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 1.3 1 1
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway) 13.9 1 1
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 28.4 1 1
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of pics 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.

Shetland

@helenmoncrieff tweeted
uma! ! I have kept my noccers pics on Facebook. Dunna ken if twi(2014)

General Northern

@Franwella tweeted
We pics like ‘is, fowk’ll ‘hink am(2020)
irSimmonsITV jist seen yer FB pics ...... ye might hae ironed ye(2012)
I am maist imoressed. You tak pics? x(2012)
aimeeannenaylor far can i see pics?(2012)
@aimeeannenaylor didna tak pics, sorry x(2013)

(South) East Central

@DavidJWood2 tweeted
That’s the high st. Saw auld pics of the abbey too. Totally dif(2020)

Glasgow

Mc, Keeks Contermacious Temerity, (Dreich 2023 ISBN: 978-1-873-412190) Central, poetry
while somewan shaws pics o thair newly writ aff caur on page 39

2 matches

General Central

@billykayscot tweeted
tae brak their leivin tomb” Pics here bi ma frien, Norman Chal(2020)

South West (Galloway)

Paterson, Stuart A. Wheen: New and Collected Poems, (Ulster-Scots Community Network 2023 ISBN: 978-1838480431) Central, poetry
they tak their pics an then forget on page 36

1 matches

General Ulster

@TheFarrierPhil tweeted
in bath, planted garlic, took pics.....only one that came out wa (2021) twitter link