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The word 'rickety'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
ricketyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.896
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 9.8 3 2
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen 10.9 1 1
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.3 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 4 3 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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of rickety in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Hale an Hairty, (Argo Publishing 2011 ISBN: 978-0954615345) Doric - Inverurie, prose
k up te the hoose, passin the rickety railway cairrages aat hid ser on page 93

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena The Quarry, (Lochlands 2007) Doric, prose
ud. The wee mantle clock gaed rickety-tick, rickety-tick like a rac
-tick, rickety-tick like a racin hairt as it
2 matches

Aberdeen

Pacitti, Stephen Lallans 77 - Anither Time, Anither Place, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
He picked his briks aff the rickety cane cheer bi the heid o the on page 29

1 matches

Edinburgh

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
Seatit at a rickety fauldin table wi Hsien an Tad
1 matches

General Central

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ressed up tae the nines oan a rickety carriage singin aboot the bla on page xiv
skin when it rushed along its rickety track, and Granda hud tae tak on page 32
ke a paintin - rollin hills, rickety bridges and burns. on page 92

3 matches

South West (Galloway)

Neill, Josie Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009) Central - Galloway, poetry
On oor rickety big bikes.
1 matches

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