A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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The word 'pike'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
pikeOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.6129
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A 13.1 4 3
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central
WCE - West Central
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh 6.2 1 1
GLA - Glasgow
AYR - Ayrshire 32 3 1
LAL - General Central 2.6 2 2
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim) 58.1 1 1
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of pike in Corpus

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Mid Northern A

Morrison, Gordon Thi Lyfe An Tyme's O An Enshoar Loon, (Authorhouse 2006 ISBN: 978-1425955397) Doric - Boddam, prose
hairber and got sumbudee tae pike is up an take is haim tae Bod on page 55

1 matches

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

@JamieFairbairn1 tweeted
Celta @molach95 Auld wives an pike staves....Scots (2020) twitter link

Edinburgh

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

Ayrshire

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

General Central

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

Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)

Millar, Al Echas frae tha Big Swilly Swally, (Ullans Speakers Association 2023 ISBN: 978-0957666238) Ulster, poetry
ls. Jookin hoores," says he, "pike heids preens pile druv ahint on page 30

1 matches

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