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The word 'picky'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pickyOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus2.486
ORK - Orkney 9.9 1 1
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
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 20.1 4 2
AYR - Ayrshire 10.7 1 1
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
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of picky in Corpus

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Orkney

Norquoy, Greer Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
No sign o picky ternos at The Castles yit bit on page 16

1 matches

Glasgow

Johnstone, Shane The Gods of Frequency, (Arkbound 2020 ISBN: 978-1912092826) Central, prose
u can tump it. You're far too picky, you want hings tae be imposs on page 3

1 matches

Smith, Elaine C. The Itchy Coo Book o Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales in Scots - A Totally Princessy Princess, (Itchy Coo 2020) Central - Glasgow, weans
cess - especially tae a dead picky posh Prince. on page 8
y Princess story about a pure picky on page 14
Princessy Princesses ... and Picky Princes. on page 15

3 matches

Ayrshire

Kay, Billy Born In Kyle, (Burnawn Books 2023 ISBN: 978-1-9993309-4-1) Central - Kyle, prose
jyne the faimily. 1 wis a gey picky eater as a wean, sae ma ploy on page 23

1 matches

General Central

@Seperatist_No1 tweeted
ve bairns you can't always be picky to them foods, food, ye can i(2020)

South West (Galloway)

@StuartPoet tweeted
lynmitchell Thon fish are gey picky, mind(2020)