A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pirate Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.2 1 4.5 9.9 0 10.3 0
Number of occurrences72 3 1 0 1 0
Number of authors6 2 2 1 1

Occurrences of pirate in Corpus

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Central

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
ed. 'A minker! A crackraip! A pirate! A kithan! A snaffler!' on page 114

1 matches

Fitt, Matthew Kate O Shanter's Tale: And Other Poems, (Luath 2003 ISBN: 978-1842820285) Central, poetry
that once blew like a pirate's sail over Ipanema on page 11

1 matches

Doric

Hutchison, Pat The Seven Coins o Kineddart, (McStorytellers.com 2016) Doric - Banffshire, prose
rd’s forefathers hid been a pirate on the seven seas.
y years before. He’d been a pirate in his youth and had sailed t
2 matches

@FaeFoggie tweeted
it. Ither een winted ti be a pirate. Maybe i hotel pit i same cou(2019) search twitter

Orkney

Bruce, Lorraine Gousters, Glims and Veerie-orums, (Orkney Voices 2021 ISBN: 9780956661661) Orkney, poetry
Some say ee's a pirate, some say ee's clean gite on page 90

1 matches

Southern

@MartyMacMurtrie tweeted
this word “Viking” meant “pirate raid” in the Old Norse langu(2020) search twitter