A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pikes Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.5 3 1.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences86 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors4 2 1 1

Occurrences of pikes 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.

Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
ers puirly-airmed wi scythes, pikes, an nae mait nor saxty musket on page 27
heuks, an even lang hame-made pikes - tae protect themsels an th on page 35
ith, he beheld in the thrap o pikes an swords an men an beasts, a on page 38
i their heids an hauns set on pikes aa ower the land as a warnin on page 51

5 matches

Bennett, Peter Carpe Diem, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
ould put his enemies heids on pikes tae warn any other potential
1 matches

Doric

Grant, Margaret Young At Hert, (Huntly Writers 2023 ISBN: 978-0993597152) Doric, poetry
e howe Breem in their bonnets Pikes at hand on page 15

1 matches

Ulster

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"Gude faith ye dinna want for pikes..."(2020) search twitter