Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'tricky'

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Use in varieties of Scots

tricky	Occurrences normalised per million words	Occurrences	Authors
Total Corpus	3.6	12	10
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	10.5	1	1
DOR - General Northern	4.4	1	1
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central	5.2	2	2
WCE - West Central	4.4	1	1
DUN - Dundee	31.9	3	1
EDN - Edinburgh	6.2	1	1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central	3.9	3	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 tricky in Corpus

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Aberdeen

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

1 matches

General Northern

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

(South) East Central

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

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

West Central

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

Dundee

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

Edinburgh

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

General Central

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

1 matches

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

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