A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pike Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.9 3.2 4.8 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences96 3 0 0 0 0
Number of authors6 4 2

Occurrences of pike in Corpus

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Central

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
leanin on the haft o a broken pike he'd liftit frae the field o on page 37
thfield gieq it a stab wi his pike. Sair woundit, the beast spra on page 38

3 matches

Dareau, Mareau Lallans 59 - The Dictionar o the Aulder Scottis Leid (DOST), (Lallans Magazine 2001) Central, newspaper
ime, wi Harry Watson an Lorna Pike, oo set aboot the lang haul f on page 59

1 matches

Robinson, Christine Lallans 74 - Burns an the Dictionar o the Scots Leid, (Lallans Magazine 2009) Central, prose
eds for greed’. (A ged is a pike).
1 matches

Kurtoglu, Wulf Braken Fences, (Caroline Macafee 2011 ISBN: B006JE3UQW) Central, prose
ally strang eneuch tae heft a pike, he had the job o shuillin aw
1 matches

Doric

Irvine, Owen Eldritch Story, (The Gaudie 2018) Doric - Banff, weans
the dug fell on tae a rooshty pike. “Misty, no!” The dug let
ug let oot a weak pine as the pike tore through its heid. McDoug
2 matches

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Celta @molach95 Auld wives an pike staves....Scots (2020) twitter link

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