Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

piano	Corpus occurrences	Central	Doric / Northern	Orkney	Shetland	Southern	Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words	4.7	5.7	3	0	0	20.7	0
Number of occurrences	15	11	2	0	0	2	0
Number of authors	9	7	1			1

Occurrences of piano 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

Sayers, Ross Daisy on the Outer Line, (Gob Stopper (Cranachan) 2020 ISBN: 978-1911279778) Central - Glasgow, prose
py wi me. It's kind ae lit ma piano lessons in high school. Ah wi on page 1

3 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
she wis staundin on tap o the piano tryin no tae get trampelt int on page 38
u. He'll be able tae play the piano wi his feet.' on page 155

2 matches

Sutherland, Hope Twa sisters, een room, (Scots Hoose 2020) Central - Buckie, prose
sical. We’ve baith played i piano and noo we play i fiddle. We
1 matches

McKillop, Roger The Staff, (McStorytellers.com 2015) Central - Edinburgh, prose
When bevuto Italiano, gae piano-piano!
-piano!
2 matches

@ionafyfe tweeted
Waits classic with me on the piano over on my Patreon. https://t(2020) search twitter

@jamieonkeys tweeted
queer twist in my tune #jazz #piano #jazzpiano https://t.co/a9CeV(2019) search twitter

@bigandymccoll tweeted
. So I can now - he's a crap piano player. There. ?? (2022) twitter link

Doric

McGregor, Iain Lallans 77 - Farquhar, (Lallans Magazine 2010) Doric, prose
s guidwife stertit bashin the piano keys for the fower himes. The on page 100

2 matches

Southern

Rodger, Matt The Borth’ick Waitter, (SCOTS Corpus 2003) Southern - Roxburgh, prose
ameron’s sister, played the piano fur oor dancing it oor Xmas c
ep bobbin roond the end o the piano tae sei hou wei dancers wur m
2 matches