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Use in varieties of Scots

pigtails Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words4.1 6.2 0 0 5.8 0 0
Number of occurrences1312 0 0 1 0 0
Number of authors3 2 1

Occurrences of pigtails in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
her mammy's pleated it intae pigtails. Gawpit thing tae dae' on page 106
d forrit and climped Amanda's pigtails in her richt fist and heezed on page 108
s mither wullnae clip aff her pigtails.' on page 111
much as she hated pleats and pigtails on lassies, and she wis aboot on page 142
saw her grip a lassie by her pigtails and fling her ower the yett i on page 200

11 matches

Thomson, Mark Bard fae thi buildin site, (Luath 2007 ISBN: 978-1906307141) Central - Dundee, poetry
Walkin aboot we pigtails on page 45

1 matches

Shetland

Watt, Valerie A daander trowe Michaelswood, (Shetland Times 2008) Shetland - Lerwick, newspaper
ves tryin tae yock hadd o her pigtails, I took da time tae read aboo
1 matches

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