A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pistols Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words5.6 8.7 1.5 0 0 0 0
Number of occurrences1817 1 0 0 0 0
Number of authors7 6 1

Occurrences of pistols 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
or saxty muskets an twa score pistols amang thaim - airmed only fo on page 27
about saxty mair wi swords or pistols, an a few wi muskets. Countin on page 35
thaim .. . Thaim wi swords an pistols an scythes, oot on the flanks on page 36
trophies o war - muskets an pistols, helmets an breistplates, swo on page 38
ide a hantle o auld swords an pistols slairit wi creesh an happit u on page 42
Also on pages 47
6 matches

McHardy, Stuart Speakin o Dundee: Tales Tellt Aroun the Toun, (Luath 2010 ISBN: 978-1-906817-25-1) Central - Dundee, prose
chiels askit tae buy a pair o pistols she sensed somethin wisnae ri on page 104
e lads that they had clubs an pistols but baith declined. The pair on page 105
onger that had sellt them the pistols in the first place, saw them on page 107

4 matches

Fitt, Matthew Chairlie and the Chocolate Works, (Itchy Coo 2016 ISBN: 978-1-78530-083-7) Central, prose
pistols o different sizes hingin fae on page 40
e doitit! Look at aw thae toy pistols he's got hingin aff his belt! on page 65
Then. STRAWBERRY-JUICE WATTER PISTOLS. on page 136
he loof o her haun, wavin his pistols in the air. on page 152

4 matches

Robertson, James The Sleekit Mr Tod, (Itchy Coo 2008 ISBN: 978-1845021986) Central, weans
mmocks and guns and aixes and pistols and aw kind o ither scunnerso on page 33

1 matches

Durie, Nick The Best o the Baith o Thaim, (The Sair Fecht 2016) Central, blog
ory voters that has put their pistols tae the heids o the lave o th
1 matches

Facebook link ( 2017) Central
wi the weapons, the muskets, pistols, basket-swords broad-swords,

Doric

@cligeey tweeted
Water pistols oot https://t.co/dq3WiFtmxr(2020) search twitter