A Corpus of 21st Century Scots Texts

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Use in varieties of Scots

pi Corpus occurrences Central Doric / Northern Orkney Shetland Southern Ulster
Occurences normalised per million words2.8 3.5 1.5 0 0 0 4.4
Number of occurrences97 1 0 0 0 1
Number of authors7 5 1 1

Occurrences of pi in Corpus

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Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
s this fuckin lunatic hired a PI in the first place. on page 107

1 matches

Donovan, Anne Matilda In Scots, (Itchy Coo 2019 ISBN: 978-1785302350) Central, weans
at we dinnae expect bairns in PI tae be able tae read or spell on page 89

1 matches

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
An ins-pi-ra-tion-al story! on page 146

1 matches

Duncan, Robert Peeweep, (Wigtown 2015) Central - Lumphinnans, poetry
Pi-rip, pee-weep,
pi-rip, pee-weep,
pi-rip, pee-weeep.’
3 matches

@weenell3 tweeted
@RealStephenKerr Mair Tory pi** you're hardly a qualified E (2022) twitter link

Doric

@cligeey tweeted
@mcbainne @air_ingy At wid pi in the Foons at Westhill(2020) search twitter

Ulster

Burgess, Wilson Dae Ye See: Ulster-Scots Poems, (Scots Language Centre 2007 ISBN: 978-0955791604) Ulster - L'Derry, poetry
Ah had'nae en'ught tae pi' for it noo. on page 13

1 matches

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