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Use in varieties of Scots

piled Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.8 6 4.5 9.9 5.8 10.3 4.4
Number of occurrences1912 3 1 1 1 1
Number of authors18 11 3 1 1 1 1

Occurrences of piled in Corpus

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Central

Niven, Liz Chuckies fir the Cairn, (Luath 2009 ISBN: 978-1906817053) Central, poetry
fowk piled fish, fowl, fruit on page 5

1 matches

Paisley, Janet Not For Glory, (Canongate 2001 ISBN: 978-1841951744) Central, prose
'Search me. I saw thum aw piled intae the van doon oor end. F on page 1

1 matches

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
the unopened Stack ae letters piled oan the side table hus also s on page 133

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
see muckle bings o chocolate piled high in the shoap windaes, an on page 6

1 matches

Clark, Thomas The Boggin Beginnin, (Itchy Coo 2021 ISBN: 978-1785303524) Central, weans
t the three bairns' claes, aw piled up in a guddle. Insteid o toy on page 29
motor. The Baudelaire orphans piled intae the backseat, and keeke on page 161

2 matches

Grae, Emma Be guid tae yer Mammy, (Unbound Digital 2021 ISBN: 978-1789651171) Central, prose
ay is ridiculous - butts are piled upon butts. on page 35

1 matches

Monahan Brown, Ricky Eemis Stane 1 - The Mindin, (Eemis Stane 2022) Central, prose
lague wis that, as the bodies piled up like a muckle great cairn on page 8

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
inned) ontae the bed and then piled twenty mattresses wan on tap on page 12

1 matches

Atkins, Elise Billy Barr ’n’ Jonny Jimison’s Day Oot!, (Scottish Book Trust 2023) Central, prose
the shoap that hid chocolates piled high.
1 matches

Thoumire, Elizabeth The killin fields!, (Mak Forrit 2018) Central - Edinburgh, blog
aff. The corps gaithert up an piled intae a truck. Sic hellish de
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
o thin, manky mattresses wis piled ootside. Guzul cam oot for a
1 matches

Doric

Philp, George Lallans 67 - Thochts anent Sangschaw and Penny Wheep, (Lallans Magazine 2005) Doric, poetry
unco sicht - papers an beuks piled aa aroun. on page 138

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Smith, Alex A Fer Chauve, (self-published 2005) Doric, prose
n the trucks stopped an abody piled oot, fa wis
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e Bear's Heid. A wheen o kelp piled fower fit high on the beach, (2021) twitter link

Orkney

Parkins, Hazel Seven Year O Yule Days, (H and M Parkins 2002 ISBN: 978-0954363505) Orkney, poetry
and polished the ben-end and piled aal the bruck in the shed. on page 58

1 matches

Shetland

De Luca, Christine Lallans 58 - seiven poems bi Christine de Luca, (Lallans Magazine 2001) Shetland, poetry
sud see da bonnie stons he's piled on page 19

1 matches

Southern

Stevenson, Gerda Kilmeny, (Scottish Language Center 2021) Southern - Scottish Borders, prose
Snaw wis faain, yowdendrifts piled up like great bens aa ower th
1 matches

Ulster

Dornan, Stephen Tha Jaa Banes, (Ulster-Scots Academy 2020 ISBN: 978-1-9163758-1-9) Ulster - Comber, poetry
An piled them up doonby. on page 20

1 matches

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