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The word 'packit'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
packitOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus5.71915
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland 11.6 2 2
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 16.3 5 3
MNB - Mid Northern B 111.9 1 1
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern 8.9 2 1
NEC - North East Central 45.9 1 1
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee 10.6 1 1
EDN - Edinburgh 18.6 3 2
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire
LAL - General Central 3.9 3 3
SEA - South East (Borders) 12.1 1 1
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 packit in Corpus

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Shetland

De Luca, Christine Parallel Worlds: Poems in Shetlandic and English, (Luath 2005 ISBN: 978-1905222131) Shetland, poetry
A'm packit mony a barrel foo on page 56

1 matches

Watt, Valerie Görwill trows blamed for earthquake, (Shetland Times 2009) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
s shook. Tankfully we wir dat packit tagidder we couldna faa ower.
1 matches

Mid Northern A

Leslie, Deborah Doric - Alive an Kickin, (Argo Publishing 2004 ISBN: 978-0954615314) Doric - Inverurie, prose
ty's conseediration, "his pey packit. Sairiously, though, life jis on page 14
lly gied the show awa, Ah wis packit aff te bide wi Faither's spin on page 66

2 matches

Hay, Gordon M. The Doric New Testament, (Gordon M Hay 2012 ISBN: 978-0957351516) Doric - Banff, prose
rood o thoosans hid gaithert, packit in sae thick egither att they on page 101

1 matches

Blackhall, Sheena Minnie, (Scots Language Centre 2004) Doric, prose
atience wi the pair o them an packit them aff tae their beds.
he Hill o Leddrach, she hidna packit her schule buits wi hey tae l
2 matches

Mid Northern B

Dunnett, Nathan The Auld Asylum, (Scots Hoose 2020) Doric - Forres, prose
ed afore we heided aff. A hid packit up some warm claes, pit on ma
1 matches

General Northern

Whyte, Brian The Bottles, (Independently published 2020 ISBN: 979-8612647218) Doric, poetry
She packit me nicely in ma wee boxie on page 97
Ayewiz bidin ticht packit in igither on page 162

2 matches

North East Central

Heather, Alistair Bravehert: The truth anent William Wallace (pairt 2), (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Angus, blog
they didnae brak up the ticht-packit formations o Scots. This thra
1 matches

Dundee

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
se no sae bloatit that it was packit roun wi herbs tae keep doun t on page 93

1 matches

Edinburgh

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
st. The alien sensation o the packit mud flair unnerfit insteid o on page 8

1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
rice cam tae bide, Rongye wis packit aff tae the ither hoose.
ngins. Somebody had aareadies packit an tied her bedroll for her.
2 matches

General Central

Sprott, Gavin Lallans 73 - Cain, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central, poetry
He packit Cain awa back til his furr, on page 72

1 matches

Tait, John M Lallans 63 - Expository Scots (2), (Lallans Magazine 2003) Central, prose
r. Sae ye get happit, leetit, packit, rubbit, weedit an gaggit, bu
1 matches

McClurg, Fernando The Potemkin Pairty, (The Sair Fecht 2015) Central, blog
Whit a sicht – the tichtly-packit huddle o activists, aw haudin
1 matches

South East (Borders)

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
llie, whae haundit ee yer pey packit, an ee did aa, bot salute
1 matches

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